Bertrand Russell Quotes

I'm a problem-solver.

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.

I think my clients would tell you I'm a problem solver. I'm not there to agree with people. I'm there to articulate a point of view. Am I insistent and tenacious? Absolutely. I could not get this work done if I was not.

Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

The great problem now is that we don’t know what to do.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

I try to look at problems very clearly and think, 'How do we get out of this? What will work? What will be the consequences for the people involved?'

I think we need ideas for the future.

I'm a pretty good problem solver.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.

Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Genius knows where the questions are hidden.

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.

When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly.

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.

We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation.