Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Charles Kettering
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Derby
Vermont
Charles Franklin Kettering
Ever
Think
Thinking
People
Screwball
Inventor
Thinks
Asks
Science
More quotes by Charles Kettering
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
Charles Kettering
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles Kettering
The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
Charles Kettering
Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
Charles Kettering
It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
Charles Kettering
What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
Charles Kettering
We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
Charles Kettering
Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
Charles Kettering
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Kettering
One fails forward toward success.
Charles Kettering
Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
Charles Kettering
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles Kettering
Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
Charles Kettering
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
Charles Kettering
If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
Charles Kettering
We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
Charles Kettering
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.
Charles Kettering
Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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
