Kettering, Charles Franklin

US electrical engineer and inventor

invented self-starting automobile ignition system

• "An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."
• "You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere."
• "You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
• "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
• "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."