Quotes About Decision-making

When you try to master the emotions of a decision and say, if you're 50 years from now and you look back, 'Did we take the right decisions?' Then the decision becomes a lot easier.

The main thing that you learn in grad school, or should learn, is how to think like an economist. The rest is just math.

Having been a mayor, we prioritized based on where we want our city and our country to go.

But there is something to be said for having one individual who is responsible entirely for the capital commitment. And it's not WWE; it's Vince McMahon and his company, Alpha Entertainment. It's not like I have to go to a board of directors. Vince makes the decisions on what he wants to do, and that makes my life easier.

To effect meaningful change, you have to look at who's in the boardrooms, who has the financial control of businesses, and who has the greenlighting power.

I'm surprised sometimes at the responsibilities you have as a director.

I'll know when to retire when I don't want to push myself anymore.

I stand with the majority of Americans who believe that women will make the right choice for their families and everyone will win.

You can see it in games with Moutinho, he never panics on the ball and makes the right decision pretty much every time.

The longest-term thought many people have in D.C. is how can I be sure I don't do anything that so annoys either my base or my general electorate that I might not be able to get my job back? I don't think that's the right way to think about it.

If you look at my career, I've taken on a lot of risky roles.

I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.

I don't tell Rupert Murdoch who to endorse.

I think it's fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president.

There are definitely times when taking a sack is a better play than doing something else and trying to make a play when something is not there.

You have to sacrifice sometimes. There are so many things in life you might want to do, but you have to know when to let go.

Where there are many counsellors there is safety.

Whether we like it or not, we don't choose Saudi Arabia's leaders. They do.

I believe it saves a good half hour to forty-five minutes a day, not having to stand in front of the hangers and the drawers and figure out what to wear.

Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.

There are always roles that seem enticing that you can't do because of scheduling.

When I'm in the pick-and-roll, I'm looking to be a playmaker first and to score second. When I'm playing off the ball and I catch the ball, I'm looking to be a scorer first and a playmaker second.

I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.

It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was a gradual process. The first time the matter was brought to my attention in a concrete form, however, was when Charles Murphy was selling out his controlling interest in the Chicago Cubs.