Charles Kettering Quotes

The market is so competitive. There are so many products that are similar. So we are forced to invest in innovative research in new products that are one or two years ahead of the market.

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing what's next and not following the trend of what's now.

We need to make sure we are constantly staying ahead, thinking about what is coming.

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends.

We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.

Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it.

You either innovate or you become defunct.

Entrepreneurship is the key to emerging technologies.

The way we look at manufacturing is this: the U.S.'s strategy should be to skate where the puck is going, not where it is.

We are never complacent. My job is to make us look 10 years out and be prepared.

Boeing has won in the marketplace for 100 years because of innovation, and we need to continue to invest in innovation for the future. And our cash generation strength is what allows us to do that.

It's not being disrespectful, but the less you know an opponent, the more work you have to do.

The thing I learned from Travis Kalanick, Elon, and others is they don't spend their time thinking about competition. They think about what they're going to build next.

I think we operate in a very dynamic marketplace, and as such, we need to constantly innovate.

I am honored to join the Under Armour Board, and look forward to seeing how a founder and CEO operates a dynamic and fast-growing company known for innovation and its competitive edge.

I'm a tennis fan, so I like Roger Federer. He's always two or three steps ahead, so he's hitting a shot, but he's also thinking about the next two shots. So I try to be in that frame of mind - to always be ahead.

What's important for all of us as chip companies is to keep the innovation going: putting out new products, figuring out how we connect these complex systems.

Innovation is critical to the heartbeat of any successful corporation in the industrialized world.