Charles Kettering Quotes
Top 69 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charles Kettering
Charles Kettering Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Charles Kettering on Wise Famous Quotes.
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.
The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them ... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.
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.
The difference between intelligence and an education is this-that intelligence will make you a good living.
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.