Henry Ford Quotes

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

The solution of one problem always brings a few more problems to the surface to be solved, which were hidden underneath the theory of transmission.

In human affairs the solution to every problem contains within it the seeds of a new problem.

The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

There are many people who want simple solutions, but there are none ... nor will there be.

Big problems usually come from big sources.

My experience in government is there is a whole host of unintended consequences you have to think through. I can't un-know that, I find it harder now to offer simple solutions.

If you go deep into a problem, you'll find most all of the time that there are yet more problems to be solved from the ground up.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.

Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

In dealing with big problems, you may miss your mark by looking too far ahead

Any study of a society shows that every solution creates a new situation which breeds its own new needs and problems, new demands.

If answers to our national problems were [readily] available we would not have to spend all our time talking about them.

Technology can relieve the symptoms of the problem without affecting the underlying causes. Faith in technology as the ultimate solution to all problems can thus divert our attention from the most fundamental problem

You can’t fix the things that bother you the most by passing a law.

Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.