Bruce Rauner Quotes

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

If you don’t understand how problems came to be, how are you going to know how to fix them?

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations.

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.

In all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

If you put too much aid too quickly into weak institutions, you have corruption and failure.

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

The solution of one problem always brings a few more problems to the surface to be solved, which were hidden underneath the theory of transmission.

Old mismanagement is no excuse for the continuance of it.

In human affairs the solution to every problem contains within it the seeds of a new problem.

The trouble with General Hooker is that he has his headquarters where his hindquarters ought to be.

The number of businesses that fold due to bad partnerships is staggering. In some cases, they are charlatans, in others inept business people, and others find themselves unable to scale with any growth.

Baseball is a poorly run business.

When you keep un-bundling various aspects of a social problem, you can arrive at a very basic, common space.

The mismanagement of the Small Business Health Options program is very frustrating.

I'm deeply involved in big problems.

There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood

We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.