Quotes About Decision

During the process that precedes the decision, no mention is made of what the answer might be. This is done so that people will not be forced to take sides; once they have taken sides, a decision would be a victory for one side and a defeat for the other. Thus the whole process is focused on finding out what the decision is really about, not what the decision should be. Its result is a meeting of the minds that there is (or is not) a need for a change in behavior.

If it were a decision today to start something you are already in (to enter a business, to hire a person, to institute a policy, to launch a project, etc.), would you? If not, then why do you persist?

Note that the question is not "What do I want to do?" Asking what has to be done, and taking the question seriously, is crucial for managerial success.

A decision has not been made until people know: • the name of the person accountable for carrying it out; • the deadline; • the names of the people who will be affected by the decision and therefore have to know about, understand, and approve it—or at least not be strongly opposed to it; and • the names of the people who have to be informed of the decision, even if they are not directly affected by it.

But it is meaningless to speak of short-range and long-range plans. There are plans that lead to action today—and they are true plans, true strategic decisions. And there are plans that talk about action tomorrow—they are dreams, if not pretexts for nonthinking, nonplanning, nondoing. The

The aim of strategic planning is action now.

There are times when a nation desires a king or a dictator; times of confusion and uncertainty when they go down on their knees to one man and beg him to accept absolute power over them.

a country like China is accustomed to making difficult choices that Americans might not dream of considering

with every choice we move either closer to God or farther away from him.

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can't refuse.

Therefore if we lack the feeling of repentance but nevertheless want to repent; if we choose repentance with the will; we are then repenting, since repentance is that choice of the will.

What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will.

Every good choice makes the next one easier and more delightful.

Tempting is not forcing.

We could turn this assertion around and state that a decision should involve the strength of our desire for a particular outcome as well as the degree of our belief about the probability of that outcome.

The best way to handle a situation in which you love the company but not the current price is to make a small commitment and then increase it in the next sell-off.

Investing without research is like playing stud poker and never looking at the cards. For some reason the whole business

Ultimately it is not the stock market nor even the companies themselves that determine an investor's fate. It is the investor.

To me, an investment is simply a gamble in which you've managed to tilt the odds in your favor.

Shop early for the best, we had often been told, and wait until just before the market closes for the cheapest.

One ship sails East, And another West, By the self-same winds that blow, Tis the set of the sails And not the gales, That tells the way we go.

Putuskan apa yang kau inginkan, dan berusahalah untuk menjadikannya kenyataan. Jangan sampai kau lupa hidup karena terlalu sibuk bermimpi

But hadn't she heard that for someone who's made up their mind, everything becomes so much lighter? It made sense, in a way. Like suddenly nothing costs you anything anymore?

Free won't is true freedom of will. Freedom from the will of ego-mind.