(386 quotes found)
“Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.”
Colin Powell
“A problem well stated is a problem half solved”
Charles F. Kettering
“Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.”
W. Clement Stone
“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
Calvin & Hobbes
“Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems.”
W. Edwards Deming
“We need workers, not leaders. Such workers will solve the problems which race leaders talk about.”
Carter G. Woodson
“It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.”
Edward de Bono
“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.”
Barbara Johnson
“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 some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, ''Boss you can't do that.''”
“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”
Albert Einstein