Quotes About Decision-making

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right

I'm comfortable with how I lived my life as the president.

It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998)

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess.

I have come to realize that in life and politics, there is always more to take into consideration.

Every evil starts with 15 volts.

Hearts aren't handcuffs and people aren't prisons. When you feel it's time for you to leave, you leave. You neither need to wait to be released, nor ask for permission.

We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.

You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.

Concorde fallacy," the conviction that it's less wasteful to keep on throwing money into a failing project than to cut your losses and do something else.

Hardin, Garrett, Filters Against Folly (New York: Penguin, 1985).

If the eurozone collapses, its epitaph should be the words of Jean-Claude Juncker, the former prime minister of Luxembourg, in 2007: "We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it."32

So absolute she seemsAnd in herself complete, so well to knowHer own, that what she wills to do or say,Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.

I told you when you were married, I told you to take a firm stand on certain things." "You never told me what things, though." "Well, dear, a nice girl. I couldn't very well tell you some things till the matter came up.

At one point, even the Head Penguin suggested that the right step might be to slow down. But Alice wouldn't hear of it. "We are constantly at risk of losing our courage. Some birds are already suggesting we wait until next winter. Then, if we are still alive, they will say the danger was overstated and that any change is not needed." It was a good point.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.