Quotes from Charles Kettering
What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
— Charles Kettering
It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
— Charles Kettering
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
— Charles Kettering
The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
— Charles Kettering
Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.
— Charles Kettering
If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
— Charles Kettering
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
— Charles Kettering
Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
— Charles Kettering
We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
— Charles 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 Kettering
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
— Charles 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 Kettering