Quotes About Decision-making

Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Great mentors don't solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act.

Know when to push, pull & hold your followers, lest you push them while on the edge of a cliff

Indecisive? Ask Yourself the Question: Does It Add Value To My Life and Makes Me Happy?

The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

We are learning, day by day, about the gift of agency that allows us to experience the consequences, good and bad, of our own choices.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote, or terminate. You're the CEO of your life!

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.