Business Problems Quotes

• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Education, Wisdom, Humorous

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• It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Mistake, Past, Reality

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• The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

  John Foster Dulles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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  A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

  Charles Kettering

  Creativity, Engineering, Innovation

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• The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Success, Encouragement, Determination

  Theodore Isaac Rubin (1983). “One to one: understanding personal relationships”, Viking Pr

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• If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Motivational, Stay Strong, Business

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• Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.

  Harvey Mackay

  Dollars, Looks, Problem

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Business, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Peter's Almanac". Book by Laurence J. Peter. Entry for September 24, 1982.

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• Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.

  Richard Branson

  Team, Survival, Problem

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• The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Successful, Investing, Problem

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• Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Mistake, Problem Solving, Obligation

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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• If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

  David Allen

  Education, Perspective, Innovation

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2009

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• We don’t have business problems we have people problems. When we take care of our people problems, most of our business problems are automatically resolved

  Shiv Khera

  Business, People, Care

  FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Jun 15, 2016

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• After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we have concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over rather than because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers.

  Warren Buffett

  Successful, Feet, Years

  Chairman's Letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1989.

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• America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

  Michael Martin Hammer

  America, Twenties, Entering

  "Reengineering the Corporation". Book by James A. Champy and Michael Martin Hammer, p. 30, 1993.

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• Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business problems dissolve and the impossible is accomplished by their ministrations.... Imagination concerning the world's wants and the individual's needs should be the Alpha and Omega of self-education.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Business, Team, Self

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• I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Education, Business, Reading

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• I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Editors, Doe, Causes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.

  James C. Collins

  Enemy, Problem, Humans

  "Good To Great And The Social Sectors". Book by James C. Collins, 2005.

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• No organization works if the toilets don't work, but I don't believe that finding solutions to business problems is my job.

  James G. March

  Jobs, Believe, Organization

  James G. March (2008). “Explorations in Organizations”, p.13, Stanford University Press

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• I've never found a client's business problem that could be solved solely through advertising.

  Lee Clow

  Clients, Advertising, Problem

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• Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.

  Dustin Diamond

  Teamwork, Business, Kids

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