Bill Clinton Quotes

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

I tremendously enjoy getting involved in a troubled situation and straightening it out... My interest would be if there was a situation that came up, and I thought I could do something with and the price was right, I would be interested.

Some players are wonderful hitters of the ball, but they can't figure out ways to get out of trouble. Eighty percent of the time, there is a way. You just have to know how to look for it.

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.

I just go into a game and try to look at the situation and what needs to be done. I try to execute.

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss

Focusing on the right question is very different from having the right answers.

Questions matter. In business, remarkable performers are brilliant at getting to the right question: the one that speeds them to the place they need to get to and offers them the missing piece they need to find.

If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through. That's all I was capable of doing in life, was thinking pretty hard about trying to get the right answer, and then acting on it. I never learned to do anything else.

Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.

Throughout my career, I've been someone who's led... and solved problems we had.

My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem-solving. She can solve any problem.

Candidates need to demonstrate strategic thinking and strong problem solving skills. And, just as importantly, they need to know when and how to ask for help.

One of the fastest ways to find the solution to an issue or challenge you are facing is to ask the right questions.

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.

My best asset to my game is my IQ. I play the game thinking the game first.