If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get. — 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
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag.… — 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… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors.… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it.… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with… — 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
