Ray Bradbury Quotes

Differentiate your products, provide great service and don't even think about trying to compete with Wal-Mart on Price.

Well I'm trying to think what I put in... I think I put in 'why?' to see if I'd confuse the computer.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

Learn from your mistakes, trying to figure out what the best way to go forward is.

There was a time traditionally - say, GM in the 1950s - it was trying to develop a consumer base that would be loyal and lasting and they were thinking in terms of an institution that would remain and grow and thrive in the society. By now, a lot of the investment firms - bankers, hedge funds - are perfectly happy to destroy what they're in and come out with huge, tremendous benefits. That's a new stage of capitalism.

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.

With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a promising one. With vertical thinking one is trying to select the best approach but with lateral thinking one is generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.

You just pick up a little bit of whatever the ones you think are appropriate, and you try and, you know, combine them. And then you bring in other people that are great for the things that you're not so good at.

Don't just play your way around the course. Think your way around way around the course.

I try to presume that no one is interested in me. And I think experience bears that out. No one's interested in the experiences of a stranger - let's put it that way. And then you have difficulty combined with presumptuousness, which is the most dire trouble with poetry.

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.

I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.

I always think that it's important to step back and look at the facts, figure out what is big, what is small, and always target the solution and the policy issue correctly. Don't try to solve the wrong problem with unemployment insurance.

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

Well I can tell you that for me generally speaking that I think things that I deal with are all to do with not accepting things, not excepting life on life's terms. My life becomes a lot easier when I'm willing to just accept. I don't have to like circumstances as they are, but I have to accept them and that's where I always seem to get thrown, when I try to will my way instead of accept things the way they are.

Winston Churchill used to say that we, Americans, try every other option before we finally do the right thing. After everything else is exhausted we eventually do the right thing and I think that's true for Congress as well. And it's important for Americans to remember that politics has always been messy.

There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.