Quotes About Decision-making

Politics, to a degree, is about legislation, administration. You can't be there in the trenches.

I think it is very important to learn to say 'No.' I think it is sometimes important for brands or the creative director to learn to say, 'This might be on trend, but it is not right for us.'

We do have a two against one rule. If two sisters feel very strongly about a design or trend we want to try, we go for it.

Influential people aren't buffeted by the latest trend or by public opinion. They form their opinions carefully, based on the facts. They're more than willing to change their mind when the facts support it, but they aren't influenced by what other people think - only by what they know.

Sometimes, we find what we want by also finding out what you don't want. All of that is trial and error. Once you're in that pit, the trial and error is important. It's up to us; we've got to keep moving forward.

Sometimes you have to forsake what you want, to get what you want.

Your choices of values and determining their priority precedes your goal setting

How can we learn the value of saying no, if we didn't occasionally say yes?

It was all fine until the girls started drinking. (Everything is always fine up until that point.)

To be happy, follow the heart not the thoughts.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

One of the greatest things in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You're the one who'll decide what you want to be.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go where we've already been. If process drives the outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there.

The mind knows not what the tongue wants.

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's.

When you're playing cards you can't constantly think about what the money costs you in the real world. You can't be constantly concerned about that if you want to be successful.

The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in.

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

You can think whatever you want, say whatever you want, and do whatever you want, as long as you are willing to face the consequences.