Joe Torre Quotes

It's like, what if you get a set of tires that aren't balanced right or a driveshaft that's vibrating. That could create a problem. You try to think of every possible scenario of what can make you uncomfortable and try to come up with a solution for it.

Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place?

Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.

If I hear something's not quite going right, then I'm there quicker than if I hear something's going wrong.

My job is to try to figure out how to fix things, and I'm going to fix things as best as I can. I'm going to get a team together to fix things. And I can't sit around and worrying what the heck the chairman of the Republican Party thinks about what I'm doing.

Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

Trouble that is easily recognized is half-cured.

Don’t be scared... Be positive... Please don’t think that your life is about to end... Take the right advice and act as soon as you can... If there’s an issue in your system, don’t ignore it.

The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better than I could.

I just don't see anybody that's particularly interested in fixing that.

Problems breed problems, and the lack of a disciplined method of openly attacking them breeds more problems.

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed. Realistically, the more problems we have and the larger they are, the greater our value to our employer.

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out?" Lula

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?

It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

I always believed you could fix whatever problems.

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

Seek people who seek solutions.

I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press.

You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.

I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.