Joe Lonsdale Quotes

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

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

Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.

Before you can change your industry positively, you need to understand how to go about doing so.

We're communicators, we're problem solvers, and we're lateral thinkers, and there's nothing that can't be improved with that. The world needs us, and we want to be needed.

Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.

Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.

Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.

I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"

[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and verification; and it affords a boundless scope for the exercise of the highest efforts of imagination and invention.

You don't lack resources. You lack resourcefulness .

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

Solving problems should be a joy, a welcome challenge to our creativity.

I'm a problem-solver, and you're welcome.

Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.