here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything. Charles Kettering More Quotes by Charles Kettering More Quotes From Charles Kettering A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. Charles Kettering creativityignoranceinspirational The price of progress is trouble. Charles Kettering progresstrouble One fails forward toward success. Charles Kettering failurebusinessinspirational 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 strikesenoughideas 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 menyearsideas The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it. Charles Kettering donebeliefway I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there. Charles Kettering futurerunningpeople Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice. Charles Kettering advicefatherson 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 expertstryingscience Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. Charles Kettering old-yearnew-yearreality 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 businesspeopleneeds Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. Charles Kettering taxationsciencethinking 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-havetoo-latepeople 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 failuresuccessscience 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 prejudicesimplefacts What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it. Charles Kettering effortwantbelieve The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction. Charles Kettering prosperitycreationkeys It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop. Charles Kettering insightfuldifferencesinspirational Learn how to fail intelligently. Charles Kettering failurefailing 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 progresstimescience
