Quotes About Decision-making

Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can afford to make a purchase - does their income safely cover their mortgage payment? Then they determine whether owning is a better financial choice than renting - are the costs of owning a home lower than the cost of renting it?

On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

If I get tired, my concentration goes away. My decision-making isnt as razor sharp as it was. I will repeat myself; my memorys not great, I forget words.

In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it's really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat.

With rising Covid-19 cases and deaths in India, the government should have thought of the repercussions before opening liquor shops.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.

Algorithms and data should support the human decision, not replace it.

My job as governor is different from the legislators. They represent their districts. I have to represent all 6.6 million Tennesseans and come to the best decisions I can.

What is important to me is that I'm not accountable to and not controlled by party leadership. At the end of the day, I'm able to make my own decisions according to what's best for the community and the constituents I represent. It doesn't depend on what the partisanship is to the right or to the left.

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

When the people's representatives have to go on record and vote, it transforms our country. It is a full recognition that we are in a state of war.

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

People had J.F.K. all wrong. They thought of him as a dashing, deciding type. He was an extremely hesitant person who checked the ice in front of him all the time.

I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

I've always had this identity thing. When I was little, I was always changing my handwriting because I couldn't decide which one I liked best.

I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time - or go bankrupt.

I mean, if I could score 40 every game, then I would score 40 every game. But I think I cannot score 40 every game, so I'm gonna pass a little bit, too.

In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.