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 This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved. Charles Kettering technology simple looks Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me. Charles Kettering problem leadership 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 healthy purpose science 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 dollars too-much thinking A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head. Charles Kettering research men science If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf. Charles Kettering mail business want Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress. Charles Kettering writing philosophy science The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all. Charles Kettering learning differences education 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 being-thankful government pay People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. Charles Kettering science people thinking 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 thoughtful ignorance men I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now. Charles Kettering research science way Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry. Charles Kettering banking science bankers It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. Charles Kettering tattoo life art Don't bring anything to me but trouble. Charles Kettering trouble The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears. Charles Kettering future war peace Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher. Charles Kettering mean believe knowledge Research is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you are doing now. It may also be said to be the method of keeping a customer reasonably dissatisfied with what he has. That means constant improvement and change so that the customer will be stimulated to desire the new product enough to buy it to replace the one he has. Charles Kettering desire trying mean We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model. Charles Kettering models people world 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 daily-life machines enemy
