Greg Fitzsimmons Quotes

I'm always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems.

Sometimes this high-tech world calls for low-tech solutions.

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them.

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'

I like tackling problems that I can see making an impact on real people and real businesses immediately.

Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.

None of these guys in Silicon Valley would be very rich if you take away government funding for science.

At the end of the day, leaders have to come up with pragmatic solutions that work

The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble

The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?

When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.

Do I need to know about medicine to solve the health problem in Brazil? Do I need to know about agriculture to advance the agribusiness?

You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.

We value seriousness and willingness to solve problems.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!