Charles F. Kettering

I don’t want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can’t be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn’t know a thing can’t be done – and he goes ahead and does it.

Charles F. Kettering

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.

Charles F. Kettering

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

Charles F. Kettering

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.

Charles F. Kettering

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.

Charles F. Kettering

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Charles F. Kettering

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.

Charles F. Kettering

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Charles F. Kettering

People are very open-minded about new things – as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.

Charles F. Kettering

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

Charles F. Kettering