Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

There's a way to do it better - find it.

I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like, 'You know what? I don't like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.'

It's always good to have a limit because it forces you to think about all the ways to get what you want.

Part of the process is always, 'Is there a better way?' We try to think through if there's something we can do better creatively or technically, or just is more efficient.

I always try to find better ways to do things. Whether it's a game plan, a practice, a meeting, an interview, whatever it is. I'm going to find a way to find a way to analyze it and find a better way to do it. That's my mindset. I've never been satisfied with anything. That's just my mindset. I'm always trying to find a better way to do things.

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

Always remember, however, that there’s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

There's no good idea that can't be improved on.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

People can come to me, and no matter how expert they are, I can virtually always see a way of doing something better.

Anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur like someone else is actually looking in the wrong direction. You don't look out for inspiration, you look in. You have to ask yourself how can I be better today, at solving the problem I am trying to solve for my company. I wouldn't encourage anyone to be like me. Just be like you.

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

Impact is just always improving at all angles. There is a lot of creativity and thought that goes into everything.

New stimuli can come from the same coach if he questions himself.

I'm always trying to do things better than I've done them before, do them faster than I've done them before.

Our work can always get better, and we are constantly striving for that.

We're communicators, we're problem solvers, and we're lateral thinkers, and there's nothing that can't be improved with that. The world needs us, and we want to be needed.

I like confusing people and challenging myself.

When I look at other products, I naturally think of ways to improve upon what already exists.

Everything has been thought of before... the real problem is to think of it again.

We have to constantly be looking to improve.