Quotes About Decision-making

En los países pobres, lo primero que pierden las mujeres es su capacidad de elegir.

He always put off the most important matters affecting his own life. When he was at work, on the other hand, he insisted on arguing for precisely the opposite approach. Always do the most important things first. He had a split personality.

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

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

the man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.

En général, les hommes, sous un gouvernement comme le nôtre, croient de leur devoir d'attendre que la majorité se soit rendue à leurs raisons. Ils croient que s'ils résistaient, le remède serait pire que le mal ; mais si le remède se révèle pire que le mal, c'est bien la faute du gouvernement. C'est lui le responsable.

Un uomo saggio non lascia il giusto alla mercé del caso né desidera che esso si affermi attraverso il potere della maggioranza.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed

Únicamente el vilipendiado mecanismo de los precios es capaz de resolver el problema enormemente complicado de decidir con precisión, entre los miles de mercancías y servicios diferentes, qué cantidad y en qué proporción deben producirse.

La política que propugne dependerá de la postura particular que se adopte en cada momento. Porque cada cual es unas veces el Dr. Jekyll y otras Mr. Hyde.

Lo que en la conducta de cualquier familia es prudencia —afirmaba el recio sentido común de Adam Smith, replicando a los sofistas de su tiempo— difícilmente puede ser locura en el gobierno de un gran reino.»

las intervenciones de los gobiernos sólo tienen en cuenta las consecuencias que saltan a la vista, pero ignoran las que no se ven

Apologies, Mrs. Touchett intimated, were of no more use to her than bubbles, and she herself never dealt in such articles. One either did the thing or one didn't, and what one would have done belonged to the sphere of the irrelevant, like the idea of a future life or of the origin of things.

Don't question your conscience so much--it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for great occasions.

When you are embarrassed, do as you think best, and you will do very well. When you are in a difficulty, judge for yourself.

Vorbeam cu chibzuit? premeditare, dar, pe m?sur? ce cuvintele mele deveneau sonore, m? izbea imprudenÈ›a lor. TotuÈ™i, le d?deam drumul la noroc È™i nu-mi p?rea r?u, fiindc?, la urma urmei, poate c? b?trîna va fi dispus? s? negocieze.

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

He says, "Good … I'll write up the sales slip." You interject, "No … wait—maybe we can talk." He arches an eyebrow and says, "When you and your wife finish discussing this, you'll find me in Hardware," and strolls away.

All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority.

Now, in general, Stick to the boat, is your true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when Leap from the boat, is still better.

Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.