Problem Approach Quotes

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?

How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question.

From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.

It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.

You give them recommendations. You throw different angles at them where, hopefully, they can get something out of it.

Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, "I wasn't trained for this!" That's an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, "Cool. A problem I've never seen before. Let's see how I can figure out how to solve it!"

Start at the end and work back.

A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.