Quotes About Decision-making

I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.

If I was in Vince McMahon's position, I would have fired myself for sure, 100 per cent.

It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.

We perceive, we remember our experiences, we make judgments, we act - and in all of these endeavors, we are influenced by factors that we aren't aware of.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.

I've gone through long periods of time when there's no work for me. You wait for the next job to come along, and when it does, there's never a consideration about whether you do or don't do something.

When you're taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you've got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you're doing is fair and seen to be fair.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

A PSYCHOLOGICAL TIP Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No -- not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

In a harangue to the people, he said, with reference to these measures, that he had proscribed all he could think of, and as to those who now escaped his memory, he would proscribe them at some future time.

I don't know what I want sometimes, But I know that I want to know what I want. I know that once I know what I want I will be able to get it. Of course, I may not want what I get when I get it... But, at least I'll know I don't want that! Then, I can move on to something else I don't know if I want. That's progress!

ninety-nine per cent of the human race, no matter how smart they are, will do the convenient thing instead of the wise thing, and kid themselves into thinking they can somehow escape the consequences.

MacArthur's worse than the Cabots & the Lodges-they at least talked to one another before they told God what to do.

When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

Between stimulus and response, here lies the womb of decision-making.

Paralogism is rarely a good strategy for the effective leadership.

Sir, a man may turn rogue in sheer thoughtlessness. You lose your head over a pretty girl, you fight another man about her, there is a catastrophe, you have to take to the mountains, and you turn from a smuggler into a robber before you have time to think about it.

Good management is better than good income.