Quotes About Decision-making

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

We all have many different options for contacting people electronically: email, text, IMs, Tweets. There is a time and a place for each. When a plane lands in the Hudson in front of you, that's a Tweet. That's the ultimate Tweet. You don't email a friend that. You tweet it.

When does a fellow step aside? I don't want to go off in a state of senility, as some have, even on this Court, in the past. I don't want to reach that point. And, of course, each of us is the last to know when he's reached that point. Just how much longer I'll go, I don't know.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Once you learn to think like the people with the checkbook, you're one step closer to success.

Brodsky knew in his heart that external events weren't really to blame, and he eventually forced himself to face up to the truth: He had single-handedly destroyed a solid, profitable business by putting it in harm's way. Without his decision to acquire Sky Courier, and to keep pouring cash into it, CitiPostal would not have been vulnerable to the events that brought it down.

I've made much more money by choosing the right things to say no to than by choosing things to say yes to," said restaurateur Danny Meyer of Union Square Hospitality Group, and he could have been speaking for others. "I measure it by the money I haven't lost and the quality I haven't sacrificed

For God's sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will come. And when they do, if you have confidence in yourself you don't have to feel that you can't turn it down if it isn't quite right for you because you fear you'll never get another offer. You will. Wait for the right opportunity, and turn down all the rest. It will make all the difference.

It is why boards were invented, to add sufficiently diverse wisdom to counter a single leader.

That is why effective organizations have monthly board meetings.

Strategic thinking is the director's role. Planning is an exclusively executive role.

trying to avoid here is the rush into planning projects and budgets at the expense of strategic thought

interactive graphic systems, instead of just lists of numbers, should greatly enhance the quality of boardroom debates.

The board should include a balance … such that no individual or small group of individuals can dominate the board's decision-making.

Direction-givers need a 'brain-on', rather than a hands-on attitude.

The key point is that independence of thought is demanded of all directors when on a board.

A successful person can make decisions and take action in the face of fear. The successful are head and shoulders above their peers and competition. They accomplish their goals, have pride in themselves, and find a way to achieve what they want in life.

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

Cohn and Porter worked together to derail what they believed were Trump's most impulsive and dangerous orders. That document and others like it just disappeared. When Trump had a draft on his desk to proofread, Cohn at times would just yank it, and the president would forget about it. But if it was on his desk, he'd sign it. "It's not what we did for the country," Cohn said privately. "It's what we saved him from doing.

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.