"External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now."
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"In the United States, anybody can be President. That's the problem."
"His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto."
"When we pray, we open the door for God to come into our problems and situations and work on them."
"Don't solve problems. Pursue opportunities."
"We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it."
"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
"Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth."
"Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems."
"Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems."
"Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible."
"The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives."
"The opportunities and threats existing in any situation always exceed the resources needed to exploit the opportunities or avoid the threats. Thus, strategy is essentially a problem of allocating resources. If strategy is to be successful, it must allocate superior resources against a decisive opportunity."
"Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems."
"I don't think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems."
"Remember, it is only exposed problems that can be resolved."
"You can become rich by being cheap but the problem is that even though you are rich, you are still cheap"
"I approach every problem with optimism."
"Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome."
"There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man"