103 Quotes by Charles F. Kettering

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

One fails forward toward success.

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they’ve never had to present a working model.

Every honest researcher I know admits he’s just a professional amateur. He’s doing whatever he’s doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he’s going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

It is easy to build a philosophy – it doesn’t have to run.

Problems are the price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.