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The simplest way to assure sa...

The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.

Charles Kettering 157 quotes

Bankers regard research as mo...

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

Charles Kettering 157 quotes

When I was research head of G...

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."

Charles Kettering 157 quotes

We have been measuring too mu...

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 Kettering 157 quotes

A research problem is not sol...

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

Charles Kettering 157 quotes

Great steps in human progress...

Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

Charles Kettering 157 quotes

Modern psychology teaches tha...

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

Charles Kettering 157 quotes

Industry prospers when it off...

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 Kettering 157 quotes

All human development, no mat...

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

Charles Kettering 157 quotes

You can't have a better tomor...

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

Charles Kettering 157 quotes

The difference between intell...

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 157 quotes

We work day after day, not to...

We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

Charles Kettering 157 quotes

Education is man's going forw...

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 157 quotes

A man must have a certain amo...

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

Charles Kettering 157 quotes

People see the wrongness in a...

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

Charles Kettering 157 quotes

If we taught music the way we...

If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.

Charles Kettering 157 quotes

I think that the greatest edu...

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 Kettering 157 quotes

If I have had any success, it...

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

Charles Kettering 157 quotes

And there is the point exactl...

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 157 quotes

Every honest researcher I kno...

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.

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