Quotes About Decision-making

It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble.

As the Head of a woman's college she must, thought Harriet, have had a distasteful task; for she looked as though the word 'compromise' had been omitted from her vocabulary; and all statesmanship is compromise.

She thought that trying to live life according to any plan you actually work out is like trying to buy ingredients for a recipe from the supermarket. You get one of those trolleys which simply will not go in the direction you push it and end up just having to buy completely different stuff. What do you do with it? What do you do with the recipe? She didn't know.

He turned left, therefore, in the hope of finding better fortune in that direction, but after a while lost his nerve and turned a speculative right, and then chanced another exploratory left, and after a few more such maneuvers was thoroughly lost.

He had been told that when looking for a good oracle, it was best to find the oracle that other oracles went to.

Who can possibly rule, if no one who wants to do it can be allowed to?

I go up, said the elevator, or down. Good, said Zaphod, We're going up. Or down, the elevator reminded him. Yeah, OK, up please. There was a moment of silence. Down's very nice, suggested the elevator hopefully. Oh yeah? Super. Good, said Zaphod, Now will you take us up?

And then whenever I stop and think – why did I want to do something? – how did I work out how to do it? – I get a very strong desire just to stop thinking about it. Like I have now. It's a big effort to talk about it.

president," as LBJ had done during Hurricane Betsy. He chose a more

Look to it and consider, and deem not That ever stubbornness excels discretion.

It's often when you're talking over things that you seem to see your way clear. Your mind gets made up for you sometimes without your knowing how it's happened. Talking leads to a lot of things one way or another.

Progress by elimination," said Sir Charles.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

They were following me because I was ahead of them, which is no way to choose a leader. Following someone simply because they're out in front is never a good idea, but it happens all the time.

There's a famous and often-told story about the great economist John Maynard Keynes: once, when accused of having flip-flopped on some policy issue, Keynes acerbically replied, "When the facts change, sir, I change my mind. What do you do?

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

I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the hamburgers or making the money back at corporate headquarters. But if people want to do that, they're free to do it.

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

In 1980, after 10 years at 'The Times,' I was at a crossroads in my personal life. I loved my family, but I was also so obsessive about my work that I found myself devoting more and more time to it. I wanted to be everywhere there was a good story, and that meant I had to choose between that and being with the family on important days.

If the best that we have is an iso, or if my personnel on my team dictates that that is really good, then that's what we're going to do.

You need the management personnel who can help you out with various things. The captain can't be asked to get into every decision.

Put your choices in perspective.

Leaders have to consider whether they have the right diverse perspectives at the table.

Diverse perspectives lead to a better outcome. There's so much data, when you look at the math, in terms of the investor returns and the shareholder value that gets created from more diverse boards.