Quotes About Decision

Ask most entrepreneurs who have decided to pivot and they will tell you that they wish they had made the decision sooner. I believe there are three reasons why this happens. First, vanity metrics can allow entrepreneurs to form false conclusions and live in their own private reality. This is particularly damaging to the decision to pivot because it robs teams of the belief that it is necessary to change.

Those who have sat in a meeting debating the units of measurement in a report will recognize this problem.

The decision to pivot is emotionally charged for any startup and has to be addressed in a structured way. One way to mitigate this challenge is to schedule the meeting in advance. I recommend that every startup have a regular "pivot or persevere" meeting.

This is the pattern: poor quantitative results force us to declare failure and create the motivation, context, and space for more qualitative research. These investigations produce new ideas—new hypotheses—to be tested, leading to a possible pivot. Each pivot unlocks new opportunities for further experimentation, and the cycle repeats. Each time we repeat this simple rhythm: establish the baseline, tune the engine, and make a decision to pivot or persevere.

are we making sufficient progress to believe that our original strategic hypothesis is correct, or do we need to make a major change?

It was time for a pivot or persevere meeting.

learn whether to pivot or persevere.

make a sharp turn called a pivot or whether we should persevere along our current path.

The nurse told me I could

Chapter Twenty-Five

He couldn't know the future. He had to do what he could to save every person. Today. Now.

One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try and predict the stock market... and then we decided it was illegal. So we stopped doing that.

So are we going to eat some Boo Berry or what?" John said, leaping out of his seat and toward the refrigerator.

But the moral balance sheet calculated in the safety of a sterile operations room meant absolutely nothing in front of a man who'd gone through the worst sort of hell because of one cold-blooded decision.

Some people should never have children.

the innovate-or-buy decision follows. This model shows in a quantitative way that user firms with unique needs

A small model of the innovate-or-buy decision follows.

calcul serait partiel, car il y a des avortements

Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.

the motto of all consciousness is determinatio est negatio.

The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool's way, the coward's way.