Lynn Good Quotes

Every time the country is in a crisis, I think and decide where is the best way to go. We have to always think of ways to overcome these limitations.

Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions.

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

I tremendously enjoy getting involved in a troubled situation and straightening it out... My interest would be if there was a situation that came up, and I thought I could do something with and the price was right, I would be interested.

I've always been calm, and I'm very good in a crisis.

Leadership is solving problems.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

I'm a problem-solver.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

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

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare. They are paid in proportion to the supply and demand of them

As a politician, you can run from your problems or run toward your problems.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don't know by what you do.

The most important man in the room is the one who knows what to do next.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

Throughout my career, I've been someone who's led... and solved problems we had.