Quotes from Charles Kettering
What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
— Charles Kettering
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
— Charles Kettering
It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
— Charles Kettering
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
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
— Charles Kettering
If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
— Charles Kettering
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
Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.
— Charles Kettering
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
We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
— Charles Kettering
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
— Charles Kettering
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