Quotes About Decision-making

You just don't let the fear paralyze you. You think about what options you have, not about the worst thing that could happen.

When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.

The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

When you have an opportunity to take the lead and you don't, most of the time something bad happens.

If we have to go through a mental exercise, yes or no, every time we are faced with a tough decision, we will continue to have trouble with living what we supposedly believe.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

I chose to wait to get my drivers license. Since I was working and I didn't have time, I got it like a week before my 18th birthday.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money.

Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish, and he perfectly chose the time to be selfish and made plays.

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

Our problem wasn't that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.

Priority is a function of context.