Quotes About Decisions

As Peter Drucker wrote: "In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined. 'What are the expected results from this work?' is . . . the key question in making knowledge workers productive. And it is a question that demands risky decisions. There is usually no right answer; there are choices instead. And results have to be clearly specified, if productivity is to be achieved."*

Your mind will keep working on anything that's still in that undecided state.

Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don't, can can't? Choices sit on the shelf life New shoes in a shoe shop. If the in crowd are squeezing into a must-have shoe And the one pair left are too tiny for you Don't feel compelled into choosing them If you're really a size 9, buy that size. While everyone else Hobbles round with sore feet Your choices should feel comfortable Or they aren't your choices at all. Why limp when you can sprint?

The avenues he had taken as a young man had pretty much dictated what the remaining years of his life would be like.

Everyone has choices. You make them and then you live with the consequences.

These were the moments in my life where clear choices could be made. Do it or don't do it. Often, the decision was difficult.

With a perfect memory did not come a perfect mind, or resolute decisions. Sometimes with perfection on one end of the equation, one was left with stark imprecision on the other. Perhaps it was nature's way of balancing things.

government leaders made decisions that would have massive impact on millions of people, all without their knowledge or consent.

I can be fat or I can smoke. I can't be both." They

But then again, our life is what we make it, right? Bad choices. You can't blame others for that.

presidents had to make

Some forms of socialism and collectivism are – explicitly or implicitly – based on the notion that many people are not competent to make decisions about their own lives, so that the more talented should make decisions for them. But that would mean there were no universal human rights, only rights that some have and others do not, denying the essential humanity of those who are deemed to be owned.

In truth, mobilizing people is only about 5 percent of the leader's job. The best leaders dedicate almost all their time to the latter two elements: making great decisions and executing consistently with those decisions.

Isn't it odd how the little things can change a man's entire life?

By relying on the decisions of others to drive portfolio choices, investors fail to take responsibility for the most fundamental fiduciary responsibility—designing a portfolio to meet institution-specific goals.

Investment returns stem from decisions regarding three tools of portfolio management: asset allocation, market timing, and security selection.

Who teaches your U.S.A. children how to choose their temple? What to love enough not to think two times?

since it's my own choices that'll lock me in, it seems unavoidable—if I want to be any kind of grownup, I have to make choices and regret foreclosures and try to live with them.

My toughest decisions had been whether to catch the afternoon showing of Mrs. Doubtfire or play bingo.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

There's small choice in rotten apples.

Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.

But by bad courses may be understood that their events can never fall out good.

his disease, whatever it was, resided in shadier corners of his soul—where decisions were reached not through reason but by rationalization, and where a thin membranous growth of selfishness always seemed to prevent his decent motives from becoming happy actions.