Quotes About Decision-making

Phineas Gage's case is not the only important historical source in the effort to understand the neural basis of reasoning and decision making...[to understand the effect of] prefrontal damage. ... The Hebb-Penfield and Ackerly-Benton shared a number of personality traits...One way of describing their predicament is by saying that they never construct an appropriate theory about their persons.

This armchair strategist never possessed the qualities for true generalship, because he ignored practical problems.

A company, which asks the job-seeking candidates to give it in writing a road-map as how they are going to make it grow as a condition or clause for their hiring, is most likely making a great financial loss and most probably its boss is seriously contemplating only to close down that particular business on gross.

A man could remain free from birth till the date of his wedding only and then he has to unfailingly agree to both i.e. his wife and boss for everything.

A person who can't differentiate between the CAREER and the CARRIER has also been seen at the peak decision-making position of the private organization.

Job interview is basically a process in which if an interviewee gives all answers honestly to the interviewers, then it is highly likely that they will reject him but not before grilling him with all sort of absurd questions; but when he pleases them with the reasons that they deem it right even if not correct, surprisingly they often select him instantly.

On life's important subject or any money matter, if there is no option left but to rely on one then it is better to trust someone who is most often seen alone than somebody who has many to accompany as his/her friends.

Perhaps no business organization would have ever doomed to debacle if its owner had made even a small room for growth for its talented worker to reach to the decision-making, topmost position

The company's business has never doomed because of ground force or even of middle cadre people but because of top brass only.

The employees appear liability to an employer whose decision-making authority often shirks own responsibility but expects the majority of workforce to do their duty with sincerity.

The mark of unintelligent people is that they won't buy that they want until it is offered with a big discount and a secretly charged amount

Researchers from Harvard and the University of Virginia did an experiment in which they gave people a choice to be alone in a room, without anything—devices, books, papers, phones—or get an electric shock. 67 percent of men chose an electric shock.

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

We conduct our lives according to our sense of right and wrong. We somehow possess an awareness of what we "ought" to do. When we fail to do what we "ought," a part of our mind we call "conscience" evokes an unpleasant feeling we call "guilt." Is that feeling—present in almost all individuals—an indication of a God-given moral law? Or does it simply reflect what we have been taught by our parents?

Which of us is not saying to himself--which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: "I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Political courage is not political suicide.

I was very glad I could afford to say no. With the income from my businesses, I didn't need money from acting. I never wanted to be in a financially vulnerable position, where I had to take a part I didn't like.

You can overthink anything. There are always negatives. The more you know, the less you tend to do something. If I had known everything about real estate, movies, and bodybuilding, I wouldn't have gone into them. I felt the same about marriage; I might not have done it if I'd known everything I'd have to go through. The hell with that! I knew Maria was the best woman for me, and that's all that counted.

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

LEGGE DI KATZ Uomini e nazioni agiranno razionalmente solo dopo aver esaurito ogni altra possibilità.

3. INVEST INTELLIGENTLY

There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid.