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
In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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).
I bought him an attractive bird cage made in Switzerland,
It is the follow through that makes the great difference between ultimate successand failure, because it is so easy to stop.
If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.
I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be. That is my reason for planning.
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to live the rest of our lives there.
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
99 percent of success is built on failure.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.