Charles F. Kettering

Quotes

• “You know, you read about the future. You can't help that. I don't look upon the future. I am not a politician. I am not worried about the future at all. I don't like to run it down. I don't like to think of it being too dark because I expect to spend all the rest of my life there and I don't want to have a nasty end to it.”
• “The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.”
• “A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.”
• “The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.”
• “Logic is a way of going wrong systematically.”
• “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.”

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Key dates

Born

29 August 1876

Died

25 November 1958

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Franklin

Official name

Charles Franklin Kettering

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Loudonville

Place of death

Dayton

Occupation

entrepreneur

Educated at

Ohio State University

Employer

General Motors

Languages spoken

Arabic

Award

John Scott Award

Image

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