103 Quotes by Charles F. Kettering

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

In many ways ideas are more important than people – they are much more permanent.

Research means that you don’t know, but are willing to find out.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

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.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

The price of progress is trouble.

The person who doesn’t know something can’t be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.