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… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Research is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you are doing… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. — Charles Kettering Copy Share 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,… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
