Quotes About Decision-making

I tell my daughters, 'If something doesn't feel right, whether that's going to a party, doing a video, shooting something, you're around someone that's creeping you out, use your gut. If you're in a car with a driver and something don't feel right, use your gut.'

Gut is many times more important than brain.

I think, to be a director, sometimes you need to have certain hunches - you have to believe in some gut feeling.

Guys need to know when to take charge.

I will never, ever, ever change one thing I did with my policies at city hall.

Do not be swayed by glowing testimonials and fancy brochures.

But what is known is that California courts tend to do what they want.)

Will Morven be a good queen? Um, said Anya, flustered. She's the oldest... Bert's eyes opened wider, questioningly. And that makes her fit to rule? Tell me, in your reading, do you study history?

So ask yourself: "If the stock market drops 25 percent tomorrow, would I be tempted to pull all or some of my money out?" If the answer is yes, you're probably unprepared for the ups and downs of the stock market.

How many tales have you heard—or lived through—in which Jane and John Homebuyer couldn't pull the trigger on their dream house only to see the price go up when another bidder entered the game? Of greater concern, though, is the conflict sparked by the glut of investment options available today.

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change riders. You can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse. You can harness several dead horses together. But after you've tried all these things, you're still going to have to dismount.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all. Peter Drucker

There were so many variables, so many ways to go wrong.

It was the one time in my life I did something without thinking it through. People like me, people like you, all we think about is consequences. Practically from the day we're born. And look at our fucking lives.

Apollo succeeded at critical moments like this because the bosses had no hesitation about assigning crucial tasks to one individual, trusting his judgment, and then getting out of his way.

When faced with too many alternatives and too much information, they satisfice (March and Simon 1958).

For the common proverb says thus, 'He who judges in haste shall soon repent.

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It's not right. She should think of the future. HIGGINS. At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of.

Különben is: melyÅ'nk tud számot adni arról, hogy mit cselekszik? Ha számot adnánk, nem is cselekednénk.

Choice is the strongest principle of growth.

When chemistry has told me that nitric acid thrown in a person's face will cause great agony; when physics has told me that throwing a person out of a window will tend to cause broken bones or death; when economics has told me that promising to keep a person in old age will make him idle and improvident, then, and not till then, can ethics step in and forbid me to commit those actions.

There's no question that women are more risk averse, thoughtful, and deliberative.

To put it mildly, I'm not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves.