Jack Welch Quotes

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

Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.

Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable

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

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

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.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.

All the great things are simple.

You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

Big ideas are usually simple ideas.

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

Truth resists simplicity.

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

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

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

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all, be entirely approachable. Her much-advertised inscrutability has once more been found to be an illusion due to our ignorance. This is encouraging, for, if the world in which we live were as complicated as some of our friends would have us believe we might well despair that biology could ever become an exact science.

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.

If things were simple, word would have gotten around.