Charles Kettering's inspiring quotations

Charles Franklin Kettering was an American inventor who holds more than 300 patents. He headed the research for General Motors

for 27 years. Among his inventions were the electrical starting motor and the Freon refrigerant.

Here are some of Charles Kettering's quotes:

1. "A problem well stated is a problem half-solved."

2. "An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."

3. "High achievement always takes place in the frameworkof high expectation."

4. "It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again."

5. "Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down."