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Charles Kettering
11 quotes
“You know, you read about the future. You can't help that. I don't look upon the future. I am not a politician. I am not worried about the future at all. I don't like to run it down. I don't like to think of it being too dark because I expect to spend all the rest of my life there and I don't want to have a nasty end to it.”
Charles Kettering (1876–1958) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mr. Kettering's Talk", News and Views, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, General Exchange Insurance Corporation, Motors Insurance Corporation, 1936, p. 46
“The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.”
Charles Kettering (1876–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Dynamic Work Simplification (1971) by W. Clements Zinck, p. 12
“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 (1876–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Dynamic Work Simplification (1971) by W. Clements Zinck, p. 122
“The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.”
Charles Kettering (1876–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The End of Work (1995) by Jeremy Rifkin, p. 19
“Logic is a way of going wrong systematically.”
Charles Kettering (1876–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1876–1958) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Scientific American (August 1934), p. 243
“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.”
Charles Kettering (1876–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Boss Ket (1961) by Rosamond McPherson Young, p. 194
“There are two kinds of courage. One is a spontaneous explosion of aroused instincts to meet some sudden emergency; the other is steadfast and enduring against repeated failures and rebuffs. It's what boxers call 'the fighting heart,' the will to come bouncing back every time one is knocked down. All pioneers need that kind of courage, and our youngsters will need plenty of it when they plunge into the world of tomorrow.”
Charles Kettering (1876–1958) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Professional Amateur: The Biography Of Charles Franklin Kettering, Thomas Alvin Boyd, 1957, p. 211-212 (Internet Archive)
“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 (1876–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Boss Ket (1961) by Rosamond McPherson Young, p. 194
“We find that in research a certain amount of intelligent ignorance is essential to progress; for, if you know too much, you won't try the thing.”
Charles Kettering (1876–1958) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Professional Amateur: The Biography Of Charles Franklin Kettering, Thomas Alvin Boyd, 1957 p. 106 (Internet Archive)
“The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.”
Charles Kettering (1876–1958) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Professional Amateur: The Biography Of Charles Franklin Kettering, Thomas Alvin Boyd, 1957 p. 88 (Internet Archive)