Jim Rohn Quotes

All through my life, when faced with a difficult decision, I always ask myself - where can I learn more. Make the choice to learn.

In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

You've outlined the problem very well. Solutions are much more difficult to come by.

Is there anything we can appear to do?

Asking the right questions is half the solution to any problem.

Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people.

One of the fastest ways to find the solution to an issue or challenge you are facing is to ask the right questions.

I'm not sure people would think of me in this light, but frankly, what I enjoyed most about Bain & Company, the consulting firm, was the analytical process of solving tough problems.

We must get all the facts on the table, and then determine where we go.

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

My teacher says that everything that you want in the world is one step away, you just have to figure out which direction to step in.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

Almost everything I do when I approach an operational problem comes from the time I've been in space. It's a way of organizing your thoughts. We use problem-solving; what we call "what-if-ing." What if this happened? What would we do? We go over plan B, C, D, E, F, and whatever else, depending on the criticality of what we're doing. This kind of thing can be applied almost everywhere, even at home.

You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.