Quotes About Decision-making

I explained myself like this: I did not feel adamant about saying no, but I also didn't feel adamant about saying yes, so until I felt strongly one way or another, I'd stick with no.

Credibility through action. First, he bought himself time to do his homework. Then by terminating the two engineers who weren't competent in their positions, he increased his credibility with Fred as a person who could take action.

In the past, whenever my logic and my instincts were in conflict, I would back my logic. Today, I back my instincts every time. Why? Because I know that my instinctive brain is many times more intelligent than my conscious brain.

I was in control of every area of my life except for smoking. The cigarette was deciding where I could go, what I could do, when I could do it and with whom.

Yarvi: 'If we had known the hardship of it, we might have chosen another.' Shidwala: 'So it is with many choices.' Yarvi: 'All we can do now is see it through.' Shidwala: 'So it is with many choices.

You are a king. You have no business talking about the right thing.

He's a bloody idiot who knows nothing about anything, but he was born with a cock, so he gets to decide for all of us.

Being in charge can seem like a thing iron-forged, but in the end it's just an idea everyone agrees to.

Strong leaders might like it when someone brings 'em a better idea, but weak ones never do.

Because the vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.

Fighting every fight you're offered doesn't make you a big man, it makes you a fool.

Cuanto menos tiempo tienes, menos quieres arriesgar el que te queda

We are leaders. War is what happens when we fail.

Being in charge can seem like a thing iron-forged, but in the end it's just an idea everyone agrees to. By

The vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.

You should get married." "So I can be ordered around by some idiot? Thank you, no." "Then don't marry an idiot. Marry a rich man who likes men. At least you'll have that in common.

Government by committee! Everyone pulling their own way! You can only react, never prepare!

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That's kings for you. The shit ideas are always someone else's.

Being a young programmer today must be awful—you can choose 20 different programming languages, dozens of framework and operating systems and you're paralyzed by choice. There was no paralysis of choice then. You just start doing it because the decision as to which language and things is just made—there's no thinking about what you should do, you just go and do it.

By harnessing the collective intelligence in the room, we can make decisions that are much smarter than those made by individuals.

Changing just for the sake of changing can be a more dangerous trap than being stuck in complacency. The graveyard of failed businesses is full of companies that were willing to try anything, whether it made sense or not, just so they could feel that they were "riding the waves of change.

We are thoroughly responsible for who we are and the circumstances in which we find ourselves. We are the ones who do the choosing.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.