Bill Haslam Quotes

It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down.

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

There are no instant solutions.

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

No given measure and no given set of measures will work a perfect cure for any serious evil.

We can't solve all of our problems in a short time.

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

Whether the task is fixing health care, upgrading K-12 education, bolstering national security, or a host of other missions, the U.S. is better at patching problems than fixing them.

But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane season that is 100 days away. And we don't have a lot of time to waste before we start to address that next set of challenges.

One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.

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.

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

I am an expert in the 'art of the possible.'

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

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

At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.

There is no silver bullet. I know people in Washington want grand solutions for everything.

We're always looking for candidates that have new approaches to problems.

A lot can be accomplished with current resources if we don't stand around wringing our hands because of lack of funding or complex requirements.

Militaries, like all big organizations, tend to do what they know how to do rather than what they might need to do differently to address the situation they face

The problem in any constitutional change is the great care put to solve the problems of the past instead of grasping those of the future.