Quotes About Decision-making

Once investors come in, it's hardly your company anymore!

Much of political decision-making concentrates power in the hands of those already inside the circle, who tend to be men. Excluding women may not be the intention, but when they are not invited into the room where decisions are made, you can see how it happens.

The science doesn't prove Common Core's effective. So I guess what I mean is science is an essential part of any decision-making process, and so is public involvement. And in the long-term, you lose legitimacy and power if you don't directly engage with the public.

Buying involves decision-making. It's a performance activity, like sports or acting.

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

To simply argue that public spending must always go up and never be cut is irresponsible.

There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

Effective tidying involves only three essential actions. All you need to do is take the time to examine every item you own, decide whether or not you want to keep it, then choose where to put what you keep. Designate a place for each thing.

I think most people who bother to study 'Jeopardy!' game theory are going to arrive at similar conclusions about how to best play the game. Not everyone is going to take that step, of course.

Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.

If I was a normal player at West Ham and wanted to join a Chinese club, nobody would have said anything. But since I was a leader at West Ham and thought about that offer, I was suddenly a bad man.

The reality about shooting films is that you can shoot many jokes and decide later which one works. So it's not worth fighting about jokes.

There may be no great honor in running away, but worse than that is continuing like an idiot.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Uno de los hallazgos claros de la economía conductual experimental es que las personas son mucho más sensibles a las pérdidas que a las ganancias.

In the hands of good leaders, such a system can actually perform better than a democratic system that is subject to rule of law and formal democratic procedures like multiparty elections. It can make large, difficult decisions without being hampered by interest groups, lobbying, litigation, or the need to form cumbersome political coalitions or educate the public as to their own self-interest.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.

A fair proportion of each teacher's day is frittered away on pointless paperwork and bureaucracy...In my long experience ,meetings rarely achieve anything useful;they consist of of hours of endless,tortuous waffle and no decisions about anything.

The lack of ability of those in charge to get a grip on a situation, and to take immediate, decisive action rather than simply debate everything endlessly, is one of the major problems in the State education system.

Instead of looking at leadership as decision making—as a rational process of sifting through data, analyzing trends, and making decisions based on predicting futures—a design framework emphasizes pragmatic experimentation.

Noi viviamo solo conoscendo qualche cosa del futuro; mentre i problemi della vita o almeno della condotta derivano dal fatto che noi ne conosciamo troppo poco.