Quotes about Innovative Problem-solving

Obviously, a company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.

In the popular image, a problem-solving leader is a solitary genius, but the true leader prefers to produce a success.

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.

When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big, powerful sound out of his guitar amp. He said, 'I blew a speaker and decided not to get it fixed.'

Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

Our academic system rewards people who know a lot of stuff and generally we call those people smart, but at the end of the day who do you want- the person who can figure things out that they've never seen before or the person who can rattle off a bunch of facts?

If there is no sun,one must be made

One of his mechanics who despaired when he could not get spare parts for the tanks once announced casually that most of them were ordinary parts he used to order from Sears, Roebuck. Patton seized upon the remark. When it proved impossible to obtain the parts through regular channels—partly because of the red tape and partly because the Army simply did not have any at that stage—he ordered them from Sears, Roebuck and paid the bill out of his own pocket.

People who are experiencing a problem are the most likely to know its solution.

TYLER FORD: A tiger team? What's that?          HANK: Oh, sorry. It's a group of people that are put together to solve a problem that no particular unit in the company is responsible for. So the boss picks a

When I was running a software company, we always knew it would take one great programmer to solve a hard problem in one night versus 10 mediocre programmers taking a month to screw up a problem even worse.

if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

My whole career has been marked by taking on the toughest problems, bringing people together, creating uncommon coalitions to ultimately produce uncommon results - things that people said couldn't be done.

Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.

Innovation comes from, one, acknowledging yourself; two, studying and understanding the problem; and three, finding a solution.

What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.

It is possible to draw a straight line with a crooked pencil.

I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal.

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.