Quotes About Decision-making

I was a PE teacher, and when you teach, you can say, 'You have to do this.' It's an order. That's one way. Or you can say, 'Listen, we have these problems, so give me the solution,' and they have to think about it. Or you can say, 'Here are three options - which one is best?'

For me, it's easier to play with my right foot. It's simple. If I go right, I see Diego and have different solutions: I go alone or pass to Diego, or the midfield can join in. If I go the other way, the cross with my left foot is not good.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.

My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.

Obviously, as a manager, you decide the set-up of the team, who's playing, but when it comes to doing the things I want, I have principles, but I also want to leave it open for the players to find their own solutions. At the end of the day, it's also about the individual.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down.

Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment.

It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.

You're thinking about the physical consequences about what you're writing if you're going to direct it. If you're not going to direct it, then it's somebody else's problem, and they'll solve it.

Really, we don't look at deals as 'big' or 'small': we look at things that will solve a problem for us.

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.

Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

I'm a policy guy, believe it or not. I love policy. I love solving tough problems.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

Some people said, 'Why didn't you sign Peyton Manning?' Well, we just couldn't do it. We would have had to let go of two or three of our outstanding players to create enough room in the salary cap to do something with him.

Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently.

There are just some things about being president that are difficult.

If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve, but you're never allowed to discuss any economics after you leave,' I'd have said, 'Forget it.' What do they want me to do? Become an anthropologist?'

There was no precedent. If I asked somebody, 'What do you expect me to do?' they all looked blank. They had no idea; nobody had much idea.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.