Quotes About Decision-making

Hooker knew everything he could possibly know about his enemy. But it didn't help him. The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

We need a trigger to snap out of the default to truth, but the threshold for triggers is high.

Solomon was faced day in, day out with a version of the same problem that had faced Neville Chamberlain and the British diplomatic service in the fall of 1938: he was asked

This kind of management system clearly has its risks. It meant Van Riper didn't always have a clear idea of what his troops were up to. It meant he had to place a lot of trust in his subordinates. It was, by his own admission, a messy way to make decisions. But it had one overwhelming advantage: allowing people to operate without having to explain themselves constantly turns out to be like the rule of agreement in improv. It enables rapid cognition.

Its good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what youve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; youll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, youll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.

The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments to avoid.

When the Prince comes into your life, you will stop thinking and start reasoning.

If the management has not performed well in their bad times in the past, chances are they will not perform well in their good times in the future too.

How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you.

The strong leader takes a chance when there is little hope, The hope that he will succeed and little chance of failure

I use to tell people what to do, but with age I have learned to let them consider the options, if they look hard enough they will always find some few options.

There are no victims in life, we are all volunteers. Our decisions create our experiences.

Making good decisions is a skill anyone can develop with effort.

You have to master the art of selectivity in everything you do. Otherwise, you could be side-tracked by secondary events and opportunities.

Daily ask yourself: "Considering what I'm doing now, what would be a better, superior choice for me to do, to advance my plans for success?

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

You will need to know when to be assertive and wise enough to know when to exercise patience

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

Remember this well from now on: 'I want' and 'I don't want' aren't reasons, they can only be defined as self-indulgence.

Remember this well from now on: 'I want' and 'I don't want' aren't reasons, they can only be defined as self-indulgence.

It doesn't take objectivity to know what you want, and you're not objective enough to know what you need.