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
Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.
The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
Learn how to fail intelligently.
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.