Quotes About Decision-making

Ty Tryon made a lot of money after turning pro, but he might not have been ready. I don't want to make a lot of money for a couple of months and then not be ready.

The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.

You'll often find that people's declared preferences - what they say they want - are far different from their revealed preferences - what they actually do.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with.

I've always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch.

If you let too many cooks in the kitchen it could cloud your vision of what you want to do.

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

Unless you know what you want, you can't ask for it.

Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.

We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.

Compromise is when one person wants to rob a bank and the other person does not, and they compromise to rob a person outside of the bank.

Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.

I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not.

I take a situation, analyse it, break it down, put it in the form I want it to be in, and then I toss it away. Let somebody else go deal with it.

With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD

I think that Donald Trump is very concerned about finding the right way to be effective in a responsible way. And he wants to be effective.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

If you're not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.

Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the most at that moment.

When it comes to picking parts, I do make an effort to choose parts that I want to do, and not necessarily parts someone else wants me to do, or parts that someone else is going to respond to.