Charles Kettering Want Quotations

What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.

I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be. That is my reason for planning.

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.

you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.

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.

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