Charles Kettering
Charles Kettering
Charles Franklin Ketteringwas an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents. He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research at General Motors from 1920 to 1947. Among his most widely used automotive developments were the electrical starting motor and leaded gasoline. In association with the DuPont Chemical Company, he was also responsible for the invention of Freon refrigerant for refrigeration and air conditioning systems. At DuPont he also was responsible for the development of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth29 August 1876
CityLoudonville, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Charles Kettering quotes about
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.
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).
The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
One fails forward toward success.