Jack Welch Quotes

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

"Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step.

I am a firm believer that if you can explain it to a kid, you're on the right track.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

Above all, keep it simple.

Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

Complexity is the enemy of clarity

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

You can't believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple. They worry that if they're simple, people will think they're simpleminded. In reality, of course, it's just the reverse. Clear, tough-minded people are the most simple.

My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.

Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

Big ideas are usually simple ideas.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.

Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.

[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.