Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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
Life
Terms
Value
Term
Measuring
Values
Dollar
Much
Useful
Things
Daily
Think
Dollars
Thinking
Materials
More quotes by Charles Kettering
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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
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
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.
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
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
Charles Kettering
I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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
The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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
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
The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
Charles Kettering
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
Charles Kettering
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
Charles Kettering
you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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
Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
Charles Kettering
Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
Charles Kettering
