103 Quotes by Charles F. Kettering

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it’s going to be. That is my reason for planning.

If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time...

The difference between intelligence and an education is this-that intelligence will make you a good living.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don’t get as much government as we pay for.

You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man’s head to the inside.

I don’t want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can’t be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn’t know a thing can’t be done – and he goes ahead and does it.