Quotes About Problem-solving

Effective marketers don't begin with a solution, with the thing that makes them more clever than everyone else. Instead, we begin with a group we seek to serve, a problem they seek to solve, and a change they seek to make.

Marketing is not a battle, and it's not a war, or even a contest Marketing is the generous act of helping someone solve a problem. Their problem.

the proven truth about creativity: it's the result of desire—the desire to find a new truth, solve an old problem, or serve someone else.

Harvard marketing professor Theodore Levitt famously said, "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill bit. They want a quarter-inch hole.

Marketing is not a battle, and it's not a war, or even a contest Marketing is the generous act of helping someone solve a problem. Their problem. It's a chance to change the culture for the better. Marketing involves very little in the way of shouting, hustling, or coercion. It's a chance to serve, instead.

It doesn't make any sense to make a key and then run around looking for a lock to open. The only productive solution is to find a lock and then fashion a key. It's easier to make products and services for the customers you seek to serve than it is to find customers for your products and services.

Marketers don't use consumers to solve their company's problem; they use marketing to solve other people's problems.

A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck. So the question is: Have you ever done that?

Many of Ronald A. Fisher's ideas were solutions to computational problems caused by the limitations of the era's desk calculators.

On paper, in the colonel's lamp-lit office, when we saw a problem it was easy to fix; all we had to do was direct that corps commanders regulate their columns so as not to delay each other, halting until crossroads were clear, keeping their riles well closed, and so forth. It didn't work that way on the ground, which was neither flat nor clean - nor, as it turned out, dry

If I wanted to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems.

We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.

The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.

A hundred people is rather a large handful for the four of us to take on," Malcolm pointed out. "Do you have any ideas about how we're going to handle that task?" "Simple," Halt told him. "We'll surround them.

We drew lots for the sleeping spaces," he pointed out, striving to keep a reasonable tone. Ulf shrugged petulantly. "Well, if I'd known I was going to be so close to the door, I would have drawn a different one." Hal gave up trying to be reasonable. He glared at Ulf. "Do you realize how abysmally stupid that statement is?" he demanded.

Jongens vertrouwden steeds op hun fysieke krachten om problemen op te lossen, terwijl meisjes eerder hun verstand gebruikten.

Quick point: If you've been trained on the "Five Whys" of problem solving or selling, that's not what we're talking about here. Those are useful and appropriate. What we're referring to are questions that begin with "Why" and have the "poor me" tone that leads straight to the classic pity party.) Anyone

First, solve the problem. Then write the code.

The computer is very good at solving the problem we have specified and asked it to solve, but less useful when we are not quite sure what the problem is.

Askade took the battertoast, looked at it blearily. "I can't rewire it into a death ray without some extra parts," he said, and took a bite. "Hm. Tastes okay. What's the problem?

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.