Charles F. Kettering

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

Charles F. Kettering

We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.

Charles F. Kettering

We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.

Charles F. Kettering

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.

Charles F. Kettering

And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.

Charles F. Kettering

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

Charles F. Kettering

If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

Charles F. Kettering

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can’t think, we can say it anyhow.

Charles F. Kettering

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Charles F. Kettering

Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.

Charles F. Kettering