103 Quotes by Charles F. Kettering

It is the ‘follow through’ that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.

I could do nothing without my problems; they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

If you’re doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

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.

Don’t bring anything to me but trouble.

The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.

The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.