Quotes About Decision

If you can't define or act upon it, forget it.

trade a short-term, incremental gain for a potential longer-term, game-changing upside?

There have been several points in my life—among them, just before I was fired from TrueSAN and just before I escaped the U.S. to avoid taking an Uzi into McDonald's—at which I saw my future as another fat man in a midlife-crisis BMW. I simply looked at those who were 15–20 years ahead of me on the same track, whether a director of sales or an entrepreneur in the same industry, and it scared the hell out of me.

You are 99 years old, you are on your deathbed, and you have a chance to come back to right now: what would you do?

It's when I'm fuzzy about where I'm headed that I start to say yes to things willy-nilly.

It's not how well you play the game, it's deciding what game you want to play."—Kwame Appiah.

There needs to be one decisive reason, and then the worthiness of the trip needs to be measured against that one reason. If I go, then we can backfill into the schedule all the other secondary activities. But if I go for a blended reason, I'll almost surely come back and feel like it was a waste of time.

Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things." –Steve Jobs

Regret is past-tense decision making.

Most situations are simple—many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.

Naucz si? pyta?: "Je?li jest to jedyna rzecz, jak? mog? dzi? wykona?, to czy b?d? zadowolony z dzisiejszego dnia?".

As Pico Iyer pointed out, the act of quitting "means not giving up, but moving on; changing direction not because something doesn't agree with you, but because you don't agree with something. It's not a complaint, in other words, but a positive choice, and not a stop in one's journey, but a step in a better direction. Quitting—whether a job or a habit—means taking a turn so as to be sure you're still moving in the direction of your dreams.

Christopher Carmichael, "You are 99 years old, you are on your deathbed, and you have a chance to come back to right now: what would you do?

To do or not to do? To try or not to try? Most people will vote no, whether they consider themselves brave or not. Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty

In other words, I was risking an unlikely and temporary 3 or 4 for a probable and permanent 9 or 10,

Dejar de hacer algo por el mero hecho de que puedes hacerte daño es una razón nefasta para no actuar.

Related—"What is the best or most worthwhile investment you've made?" Lasik surgery.

Asset allocation: "They absolutely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, know they're going to be wrong . . . so they set up an asset allocation system that will make them successful. They all agree asset allocation is the single most important investment decision.

Toma la decisión de hacer cada día una cosa que te dé miedo.

If a narrative isn't working, well then, really, why are you using it? The narrative isn't done to you; the narrative is something that you choose. Once we can dig deep and find a different narrative, then we ought to be able to change the game.

No valores únicamente las posibles desventajas de actuar.

También es importante sopesar el coste atroz de no actuar. Si no persigues lo que te entusiasma, ¿dónde

no actuar es el mayor riesgo de todos.

My answer is: Be clear that your ladder is leaning against the right building.