Quotes About Decision-making

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

I want to stress that at no time Bolivia acts untimely or irresponsibly.

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I'm investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

You've gotta keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no. You can't let people set your agenda in life.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Before you leave the house, you need to make up your mind that you're going to stay positive and enjoy the day no matter what comes your way. You have to decide ahead of time.

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

I have great respect for press freedoms. At the same time, however, a politician also has the freedom to decide whether he or she will accept an invitation to appear on a show or not.

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.

Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.

The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.

The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.

Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea.