Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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
Willing
Means
Find
Mean
Library
Research
More quotes by Charles Kettering
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.
Charles Kettering
The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
Charles Kettering
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.
Charles Kettering
We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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
The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
Charles Kettering
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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
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
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.
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
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Kettering
We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
Charles Kettering
If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
Charles Kettering
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Charles Kettering
I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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
