Problem Size Quotes

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.

To have the ability to look back on the problems that weren't big problems after all is something I think we can all learn from.

If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!

Big problems usually come from big sources.

I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.

The size of a person is more important than the size of the problem.

Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).

The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

A hole is only as big as you dig it.

The further you are from a problem, the smaller it gets.

I think very often problems are so big, people approach problems from the bottom up: 'If only I do this little bit, then hopefully there will be some sort of snowball effect that will be bigger and bigger.' I'm much more in favor of the top-down approach to problem-solving.

It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves.

I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw the size of the problem. I mean, from were people on that weekend that thought they'd had a solution. And then the hole kept getting bigger and bigger. And all of a sudden became apparent that 20 billion wouldn't do it and 30 billion wouldn't do it and 40 billion wouldn't do it. So it got beyond anybody's ability to certainly to do it in a short period of time.

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed. Realistically, the more problems we have and the larger they are, the greater our value to our employer.

Don't ignore big problems, and don't try to pretend that problems are smaller than they are.

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Every breakthrough business idea begins with solving a common problem. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. I discovered a big one when I took apart an IBM PC. I made two interesting discoveries: The components were all manufactured by other companies, and the system that retailed for $3,000 cost about $600 in parts.

The size of the problem is never the issue -- what matters is the size of you!

Small issues are really just large ones that haven't been accorded the requisite attention.