122 Quotes by Charles Kettering

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

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.

A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.

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

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.

If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

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.