Charles Kettering People Quotations

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

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

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.