Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again.
Positive thinkers think and talk continually about solutions, and negative thinkers continually talk and think about problems. Keep your mind solution-focuse d rather than problem- focused.
One of the things I learned very early on was that if you cast the show correctly, and if you've created the right energy in the room, the solution is also in the room. The solution doesn't necessarily come from someone, but if everybody is working in a very steadfast and rigorous way, then everything you're looking for is in the room.
I don’t embrace excuses. I embrace solutions.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions
The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.
Successful people spend 10% of their time focused on the problems and 90% of the rest, focused on the solution.
I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.
Ultimately, the American people ourselves need to decide we care more about practical solutions and progress than we do about brain-dead ideology and political wrangling.
Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don't have a technology to solve that, right? So the point is not to prioritize problems; the point is to prioritize solutions to problems.
You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.
Point out the problems, as long as you have a solution. I don't like critics who aren't doers themselves.
I think, at some level, if we concentrate on problems as opposed to solutions, then you just create more problems.
There are two types of people: The ones who give you 50 reasons it can't be done ... and the ones who just do it.
I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.
I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.
People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.
Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.
My philosophy has always been to try to solve problems with a smile on my face.
I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.
The design is done when the problem goes away.
When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
When it does not exist, design it.
I'm not a complainer, I'm a doer.
