“I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.” ThinkingShouldRealProblemExpressionCostSolutionsSafetyReal Life Author:Bjarne Stroustrup
“One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and thin is a difficult enterprise, indeed almost unprecedented as an ideal. Into the paradoxical gap between the capacity to spend money and the need to eat less steps a brilliant solution: 'light' food. In buying 'light' food we can pay more for what costs less to produce in the first place.” NeedsFirstsLightDifficultWealthPayStepsRichProduceCostEatingSolutionsCapacityIdealsBrilliantIronyBuyingEnterpriseGapsAphorismUnprecedentedParadoxicalDuchessWindsor Book:Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea Source: Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea
“To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.” ThinkingNeedsFirstsUsedOrderSpaceCostSolutionsIncreaseSafetyAccessSignificantFactorsFlightBreakthroughMagnitudeOrbitAirborneSpace Flight Author:Burt Rutan
“We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.” PeopleThinkingLittlesEnvironmentCostAmbitionSolutionsGainsDesperatePatheticOur EnvironmentLittle TimeMisuseBettermentBickering Author:Dave Matthews
“It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.” MatterValuesCompanyShareProductsIndustryCostSolutionsFinalsEducationalCustomersRelativeWhat MattersIntegratedEcosystems Author:Gary Hamel
“Some of the same politicians and pundits that are so quick to reject the possibility of a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program are the same folks who were so quick to go to war in Iraq and said it would take a few months.” KnowsSaidWarChoicesBloodPossibilityMonthsPoliticianCostSolutionsConsequenceProgramFolksIraqNuclearTreasureRejectsIranDiplomaticPundits Author:Barack Obama
“Polak, a psychiatrist, has applied a behavioral and anthropological approach to alleviating poverty, developed by studying people in their natural surroundings. He argues that there are three mythic solutions to poverty eradication: donations, national economic growth, and big businesses. Instead, he advocates helping the poor earn money through their own efforts of developing low-cost tools that are effective and profitable.” PeopleHelpingBigsThreeGrowthNaturalPoorEffortPovertyStudyEconomicCostApproachSolutionsLowsToolsArguingDevelopingSurroundingsProfitableEconomic GrowthPsychiatristBig BusinessDonationSolutions To Poverty Author:Amy Lockwood
“People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything alive holds to it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition.” PeopleWayHelpingGrowsEasyDifficultSidesClearAliveCostSolutionsOppositionConventions Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“Truly world-class firms are always examining their business processes and continuously seeking solutions to improve in key areas, such as lead time reduction, cost cutting, exceeding customer expectations, streamlining processes, shortening time to market for new products, and managing the global operation.” WorldProcessClassCuttingProductsKeysCostSolutionsExpectationsAreasSeekingCustomersFirmOperationsReductionExaminingWorld ClassNew ProductsStreamlining Author:Daniel Baldwin
“And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we bad to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.” YearsFirstsSaidLostProgressPositionCostSolutionsIncreaseMotorCost Of LivingGeneral Motors Author:Leonard Woodcock
“The most straightforward path would be if we could bring the cost of solar electric and wind down by another factor of say, three, and then have some miraculous storage solution, so that not only over the 24-hour day but over long periods of time where the wind doesn't blow, you have reliable energy. That's a path. But energy storage is hard. That's not a guaranteed path.” IfsLongHardWould BeThreeEnergyHoursPathWindPeriodsCostSolutionsBlowFactorsElectricMiraculousStraightforwardStorageLong Periods Of Time Author:Bill Gates
“The question is: do we pay a little bit more now? Or do we pay a whole lot later? For the equivalent of a postage stamp a day for each American, we can put a price on carbon today that will send a signal to private capital to invest in the clean technologies of tomorrow. Taking a vast portfolio of new energy solutions to scale will ultimately drive down costs through competition.” LittlesWholeTodayEnergyBitsPayTechnologyTomorrowCostLittle BitSolutionsCompetitionCleanScalesCarbonSignalsStampsPortfoliosNew EnergyPostagePostage Stamps Author:Van Jones
“As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.” ThinkingNeedsHardSocialChallengesGreaterCostApproachSolutionsSellsAcknowledgeUncomfortableOur Time Author:Simon Mainwaring