A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. Charles Kettering More Quotes by Charles Kettering More Quotes From Charles Kettering I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be. That is my reason for planning. Charles Kettering planning kind want The price of progress is trouble. Charles Kettering progress trouble One fails forward toward success. Charles Kettering failure business inspirational Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough. Charles Kettering strikes enough ideas We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors. I'd like to take the automobile it is said they predicted could be made now that would last fifty years. Even if never used, this automobile would not be worth anything except to a junkman in ten years, because of the changes in men's tastes and ideas. This desire for change is an inherent quality in human nature, so that the present generation must not try to crystallize the needs of the future ones. Charles Kettering men years ideas The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it. Charles Kettering done belief way I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there. Charles Kettering future running people Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice. Charles Kettering advice father son 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 experts trying science Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. Charles Kettering old-year new-year reality Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want. Charles Kettering business people needs Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. Charles Kettering taxation science thinking 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 should-have too-late people 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 failure success science 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 prejudice simple facts What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it. Charles Kettering effort want believe The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction. Charles Kettering prosperity creation keys It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop. Charles Kettering insightful differences inspirational Learn how to fail intelligently. Charles Kettering failure failing You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. Charles Kettering progress time science
