Phil Jackson Quotes

It's common sense. Here's a problem, here's a solution. What will it manifest to? This drives me every day.

The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the problem or we can go out and solve the problem. I choose to go out and try to solve the problem.

I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

What interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it.

I am not comfortable with putting out problems without solutions.

Every problem we have in this country we created and we can fix it.

You can make a million excuses for why something didn't go well, but ultimately, just fix it and get on with it. Be a solutions person.

Rather than complain about a thing you cannot change, I try to find a solution to help the performance in the best way.

I see myself as a problem solver, creating solutions.

Finding a solution is the way to go.

Leaders spend 5% of their time on the problem & 95% of their time on the solution. Get over it & crush it!

The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.

The most dangerous thing that can happen to us, I think, is to permit a feeling to develop that any client is a problem. I have always taken the attitude that no account is a 'problem account' but that all accounts have important problems attached to them - that you can waste more time and burn up more nervous energy by fighting a problem than by taking a positive attitude and solving it. It sure gives you a nice, warm glow when you do.

I don’t embrace excuses. I embrace solutions.

Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.

Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted.

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

Surround yourself with problem solvers, not problem creators.

Point out the problems, as long as you have a solution. I don't like critics who aren't doers themselves.

Complaining does not work as a strategy.

Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.