Quotes by Charles Kettering

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

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

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

Where these is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."

Research: Finding out what you are going to do when you cannot keep on doing what you are doing now.

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.