Charles F. Kettering

The price of progress is trouble.

Charles F. Kettering

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

Charles F. Kettering

Every honest researcher I know admits he’s just a professional amateur. He’s doing whatever he’s doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he’s going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

Charles F. Kettering

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.

Charles F. Kettering

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

Charles F. Kettering

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

Charles F. Kettering

If you’re doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

Charles F. Kettering

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

Charles F. Kettering

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.

Charles F. Kettering

It is man’s destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

Charles F. Kettering