Quotes About Decision-making

What is it I always say?" The Cat, Sacrenoir, and the others bandied uncertain glances about. "Don't be stupid?" ventured Alistaire. "I should kill you now?" offered The Cat. "Do I have to murder everyone myself?" tried Siren. "No, idiots! When in doubt, go for the head. That's what I always say.

Give as few orders as possible, his father had told him once long ago. Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities. They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy. They can make speedy decisions when necessary. They fit an ancient human demand for a parental (tribal/feudal) hierarchy where every person knows his place. It is valuable to know your place, even if that place is temporary. It is galling to be held in place against your will. This is why I teach about tyranny in the best possible way—by example.

Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. —Darwi Odrade

Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.

Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as raw material from which to create order. That was the Mentat approach, giving no unalterable truths but a remarkable lever for decision-making: orderly assemblage of data in a non-discrete system.

A wise man depends upon his friends for information and upon himself for decisions

Leadership and our dependence on it (how and why we choose particular leaders) is a much misunderstood historical phenomenon.

The three legs of the agreement-tripod are desire, data and doubt. Accuracy and honesty have little to do with it.

Here, they showed us the Walden Fallacy in ultimate foolishness, explaining: Given any species which reproduces by genetic mingling such that every individual is a unique specimen, all attempts to impose a decision matrix based on assumed uniform behavior will prove lethal. — The Dosadi Papers, BuSab reference

Good administrators make immediate choices." "Acceptable choices?" "They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems.

I already have good administrators—uncorruptible, sagacious, philosophical and open about their errors, quick to see decisions.

O bun? guvernare nu depinde niciodat? de legi, ci de calit??ile personale ale celor care guverneaz?. MaÈ™in?ria guvernamental? este întotdeauna subordonat? voinÈ›ei celor care-o administreaz?. De aceea, cel mai important element al artei guvern?rii este metoda de alegere a conduc?torului.

Give as few orders as possible,' his father had told him … once … long ago. 'Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

We cannot have such inept chess players in our employ.

Kaybedince, iyi karar verme yeteneÄŸini de kaybetmiÅŸ olduk. Bugünlerde bir düÅŸman?n üstüne atlar gibi atl?yoruz kararlar?n üstüne...ya da bekleyip bekleyip ki bu da bir anlamda pes etmektir, baÅŸkalar?n?n kararlar?n?n bizi harekete geçirmesine izin veriyoruz. Bu ak?nt?n?n oluÅŸmas?n? saÄŸlayanlar?n bizler olduÄŸunu unuttuk mu?

He realized in this instant why he felt so terrifyingly lonely. He had no group, no place in a hive of fellow-activity, nothing to shield him from personal decisions that might overwhelm him.

For proper government, the tribe must have ways to choose men whose lives reflect the way a government should behave.

Ä°yi yönetimler hiçbir zaman kanunlara dayanmaz, yönetenlerin kiÅŸisel niteliklerine dayan?r. Yönetim mekanizmas? daima bu mekanizmay? idare edenlerin isteÄŸine baÄŸl?d?r. Bu yüzden, yönetimin en önemli unsuru, liderleri seçme yöntemidir.

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

logic is good for playing pyramid chess but often too slow for needs of survival.

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God? —MUAD'DIB, FROM THE ORAL HISTORY

Leaders make mistakes, and those mistakes amplified by the number of those who follow without questioning, move inevitably toward great disasters.

The worst products of what I'm describing are almost basket cases—can't make decisions about anything, or leave them until the last possible second and then leap at them like desperate animals.