Quotes About Decision-making

Thinking Fast and Slow.

To accomplish this there is but one way. Science must make woman the owner, the mistress of herself. Science, the only possible savior of mankind, must put it in the power of woman to decide for herself whether she will or will not become a mother.

Where was her red line?

Why complicate your life when it did not need complicating, when you had a choice?

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

No one who ever follows their conscience ever does wrong. The consequences may not turn out as we intended; it may prove that we made a mistake. But that is not the same as being wrong.

There is a danger in letting a camera make all its preprogrammed decisions for you:

Focus on "pulling the plug" on failed ideas more quickly, not on reducing your failure rate.

Every boss can't have deep knowledge of every follower's expertise. When that happens, a boss's job is to ask good questions, listen, defer to those with greater expertise, and, above all, to accept his or her own ignorance. Those who fail to do so risk making bad decisions and ruining their reputations.

La indecisión es una particularidad de los malos jefes.

there is little reason to believe that managers or other authorities will make more accurate predictions than anyone else about which new ideas will succeed and fail.

The manager comes to see all relationships with others by a strict utilitarian calculus and, insofar as he dares, breaks friendships and alliances accordingly.

As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.

But perhaps the greatest threat is that we lack the mechanism of consensus, a way of making up our collective minds.

probably would not have listened. Prince

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will make little difference what you have chosen instead.

is odd, is it not, that there should have been need of a leader? But there was. Two men do not need a leader, I suppose; but three do, and four most certainly, else who will settle arguments, plan forays, suggest the place or form of amusement, and generally keep the peace?

True genius, Churchill taught us, resides in the capacity to evaluate conflicting information.

As Obama would tell me one occasion, "I can't defend it unless I understand it." I rarely saw him rush to a decision when circumstances allowed him time to gather information, analyze, and reflect...When the occasion demand it, though, Obama could make a big decision - a life-and-death decision - very fast." Page 299