Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
Source: Stephen Covey Official Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=374674680694534&set=a.310931753735494
Quoted in The Congressional Record, August 24, 1967 http://books.google.com/books?id=jTs4AQAAMAAJ&q=%22Problems+are+only+opportunities+in+work+clothes%22&pg=PA88#v=onepage <br class="br">Variant: Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
Source: Stephen Covey Official Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=374674680694534&set=a.310931753735494
“Don't solve problems, pursue opportunities.”
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
“Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.”
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
“There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.”
Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer
"The Old Scout" in The Writer's Almanac (4 October 2005)
Sean Parker (1979) American internet technology entrepreneur
TechCrunch: <nowiki>"Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning Hint At The Future Of Airtime [TCTV https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/05/sean-parker-airtime-app-platform-cool/"</nowiki>] (5 June 2012)
Harold Chestnut (1917–2001) American engineer
Source: Systems Engineering Tools, (1965), Systems Engineering Methods (1967), p. 119
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech in the House of Commons (24 November 1976) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103146 <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition <br class="br">Context: The word “equality” is often used, but, wisely, rarely defined. The moment one tries to define it, one gets into great difficulty. For example, it cannot mean equality of incomes or earnings; otherwise, we would not need more than one union. Indeed, we would not need one union. If we are to have opportunity, we cannot have equality, because the two are opposite. We may have equality of opportunity, but if the only opportunity is to be equal, it is not opportunity.
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Adoniram Judson Gordon (1836–1895) American hymnwriter
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 194.