Quotes About Decision-making

Franklin Roosevelt didn't poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we don't need instincts. But is that a change in principle? Is it a change in principle that we use a Xerox instead of carbon paper? It's of the same order of magnitude.

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

I'm unapologetic for the fact my Christian faith defines my decision-making process. I will bring those Christian principles and that mindset to Frankfort.

The important thing, I think, going into any organization, is that all of the principles, all of the decision-makers are pointed in the same direction, with the same motives, the same desires, and then you have a chance.

I first met Michael Angel when he came to my office with a box of prints and asked me whether I thought he should make dresses from the prints.

More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.

Budgets are blueprints and priorities.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Ultimately, when you have to deal with a whole country, priorities change.

Foreign policy must be about priorities. The United States cannot do everything everywhere.

We give money to the E.U. and they give it back according to the priorities they choose, with an unelected group of people choosing those priorities.

Government is about priorities.

You need to prioritize. If you can't get to everything or do everything, that's okay.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

When we try to make everything a priority, the fact is nothing is truly a priority.

I had a girlfriend when I was 17-18, and when she was 21, she wanted us to get married. I couldn't do that, because my game was my priority. We had to part ways, and there was no guilt because I had never committed to marriage.

My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.

Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.

While accepting a film, my co-star is my last priority.

The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'

We don't know the probabilities of future events. Still, you have to take action, and so you do it on gut feeling. That's the world we live in.

Sometimes what's recommended to the people is something different than what's recommended to the leaders, because I have been recommended to use hydroxychloroquine as a prophylaxis and the probability of this harming you is very low.

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.