Problem solving Quotes
"I think the most important discipline I learned from poker was the method of decision making."
"Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture"
"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success"
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something"
"Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow."
"People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole."
"I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That's how I came up with a solution."
"The best way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself"
"The woman's disease, as I'm prone to calling it, once sparked within me a need for movement, a dedication to performance and problem solving, quite frankly."
"We believed in the power of technology to solve human problems."
"Sometimes the most complicated questions have the simplest answers"
"Do not overcomplicate things. Complexity creates confusion"
"Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent"
"Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage."
"Startups do best when they grow organically and solve real problems"