Charles Kettering Quotes

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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

Charles Kettering
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

Charles Kettering
A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

Charles Kettering
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Charles Kettering
Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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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.

Charles Kettering
A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.

Charles Kettering
You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

Charles Kettering
We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

Charles Kettering
The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.

Charles Kettering
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles Kettering
The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.

Charles Kettering
Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.

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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

Charles Kettering
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Charles Kettering
We think we are smart because we have been flying for about sixty years. Birds and bees and butterflies have been flying for hundreds of thousands of years.

Charles Kettering