Michael Porter Quotes

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

I'm the kid that tried to take Latin in school because I felt if I could understand the root of everything, then I could understand why it worked. That was what took me into engineering. And the reason I stayed is, engineering teaches you to solve problems. It teaches you to think.

I need to solve the problem. It's no different from how am I going to get my son out the door when he needs to go to school. It's a bigger version of that same type of problem.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

I like to study the question or the problem or the opportunity in hand, work with the team to come with the right answer, make a decision, and act upon it. Some people have said that, actually, today they pretty much like their bankers dull.

I was always good at math and science and physics.

I'm an artistic person and a creator. I'm not a scientific. I'm not an engineer.

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

I like to figure things out and solve problems.

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

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

Action is typical of the American style, thought and planning are not; it is considered heresy to state that some problems are not immediately or easily solvable.

Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.

Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'

One of the biggest challenges we have, as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms.

If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.

I'm more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how I think.

I'm not much of a procedural person. That's not what I'm interested in.