Quote

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

Charles Kettering

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Derby
Vermont
Charles Franklin Kettering
Rest
Future
Running
Live
Going
Life
People
Object
Objects

More quotes by Charles Kettering

Image
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
Image
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Kettering
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
Charles Kettering
Image
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Charles Kettering
Image
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering
Image
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
Image
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
Charles Kettering
Image
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Charles Kettering
Image
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
Image
The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
Charles Kettering
Image
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
Charles Kettering
Image
One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
Charles Kettering
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles Kettering
Image
Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
Charles Kettering