Quotes About Decision-making

Bir husus vard?r ki, bunu hat?rdan ç?karmamak ve göz önünde tutmak gerekir. ÇoÄŸunluk hiçbir zaman bir kiÅŸinin yerine geçerli olamaz. ÇoÄŸunluk, ahmaklar? olduÄŸu kadar alçaklar? da temsil eder. Saman dolu yüz kafa nas?l ki, hiçbir zaman bir ak?ll? kiÅŸiye eÅŸit olamazsa, yüz korkak adamdan da hiçbir vakit kahramanca bir karar beklenemez.

Di estrema importanza è l'educazione della forza di volontà e di decisione. Lo Stato azionale dovrà darsi pensiero di creare una generazione matura alle supreme e massime decisioni che allora saranno prese nel nostro globo, infondere il senso ed il sentimento di razza, far conoscere perfettamente l'essenza e la necessità della purezza del sangue

As a contrast to this kind of democracy we have the German democracy, which is a true democracy; for here the leader is freely chosen and is obliged to accept full responsibility for all his actions and omissions. The problems to be dealt with are not put to the vote of the majority; but they are decided upon by the individual, and as a guarantee of responsibility for those decisions he pledges all he has in the world and even his life.

Mi sono convinto che l'uomo, salvo particolarissimi casi, non deve occuparsi apertamente di politica prima di avere trent'anni. Prima di quell'età si forma in lui solo una base generale, dalla quale egli poi esamina i concreti problemi politici e stabilisce definitivamente i suoi rapporti con essi. Solo dopo aver raggiunto una simile visione basilare del mondo, che l'uomo maturo ha, potrà partecipare alla direzione politica della collettività

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

Lovallo and Kahneman offer a useful prescription to repair this cognitive bias: Get the data. Track down actual figures on launch failure rates for your company, your industry, other industries or projects similar to yours. The numbers will be fascinating – and sobering.

When Lascelles suggested to George VI that he give Hardinge six months' leave to reflect on his position, the king replied, "Certainly not—he might come back.")

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

I don't want anyone to think I took this role in 'Downsizing' because it was the only role available to me. I'm not a passive participant in it.

If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.

The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

I have got two paths - one to go into the media, the other to go into coaching and management. I have got offers from both.

Everyone deserves the chance to make their own choices. The first step on this pathway is experiencing the working world.

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

You have to have patience to be a legislator.

I'm enough of a patriot to think that the American public makes good choices.

For no good reason, George W. Bush and the best and brightest he could muster, including the likes of Paul Bremer and Paul Wolfowitz, decided it made sense to attack Iraq.

I won't wait for this Joshua-Wilder-Tyson Fury nonsense and become a pawn in their negotiations.

If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.

It's true that I score a lot of penalties. If referees give us penalties and the coach names me as the penalty-taker, I have to take them. That doesn't mean that I'm going to score them.

The Pentagon should use data to guide financial decision-making.

If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.