When I was research head of ...

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

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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
 Charles Kettering
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
 Charles Kettering
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
 Charles Kettering
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
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
 Charles Kettering