"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."… "You're quoting Snoopy the dog, I believe?" "I'll quote the truth wherever I find it thank you."

You can't solve problems by running away from them, it was said, and like the good child she had once been, she had believed this. But it wasn't true. Some problems could only be solved by running away from them.

In summary, there are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood (p. 17).

You know, for any problem, no matter how big or complex it may be, there is a solution. All you have to do is find it. And, you can find it by organizing your approach, by attacking the problem emphatically with determination, by working long and hard, by applying your full brain power and by using wisely all the help you can get. You CAN solve it!

Avoid the simple problems, because they become the big problems.

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

Solve the big problems inside the small ones. And it is from the small issues that a pattern can be shaped in solving the big ones.

A problem that can easily be solved with money is not really a problem because its solution is obvious. Focus on problems with non-obvious solutions.

What is your biggest problem, and how can I solve it?

Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Since you can’t avoid problems, just find good problems.
Happiness isn’t everlasting tranquility.
Happiness is solving good problems.

One can run away from anything but oneself.

The only problems that have simple solutions are simple problems. The only managers that have simple problems have simple minds. Problems that arise in organisations are almost always the product of interactions of parts, never the action of a single part. Complex problems do not have simple solutions.