Quotes About Decision-making

Nobody taught me how to say no when a beautiful naked woman begs me to take my clothes off.

We are, after all, homo economicus .

Revolutions (she'd long since learned) ran on committees just like any other government, once you got past the screaming-and-shooting stage.

Obviously good economics is not always good politics.

Statistics cannot be any smarter than the people who use them. And in some cases, they can make smart people do dumb things.

Several studies of thousands of British civil servants (the Whitehall studies) have found that workers who have little control over their jobs—meaning they have minimal say over what tasks are performed or how those tasks are carried out—have a significantly higher mortality rate than other workers in the civil service with more decision-making authority.

our ability to analyze data has grown far more sophisticated than our thinking about what we ought to do with the results. You

We had long passed the stage where the consequences of tactical armed response were weighed in advance.

When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose the provider based on the best value or service. Then why do we vote for somebody simply because he belongs to the same caste as us?

The fly that has no one to advise him follows the corpse into the ground.

The problem with always having to be right is that sometimes you're not. And so, if you're like me, those times when you're not, you try and save face—especially after you've seriously fucked up. You make one bad decision and then another, trying to fix that very first fuck-up.

Where do you go when the part of your brain that controls judgment is asleep, but the part that controls your motor activity is awake?

It's as much looking out your rear-view mirror as the windshield. You want to make sure you put your car in front of the right line. You're constantly looking behind you.

If I have misplaced a pass, I want to know why I've done that or whether I could have looked at a different pass.

I loved being a judge, and sometimes I miss the power of the gavel, but this is a lot more fun.

I really like the mission at SurveyMonkey, which is, we help people make better decisions. It's just a great thing.

You don't ask people to sacrifice their lives until the nation has debated and committed to the mission. It's immoral.

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'

I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.

I think we know enough now to know that Donald Trump is doing the same kinds of things that Jeb Bush would have done or Marco Rubio would have done or Mitt Romney would have done.

Modeling was sort of a way to not work in a bar - it gave me time to really think about what I wanted to do, and things I liked and didn't like.

There's a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at the moderate stage.

The moment you feel yourself hesitate on something you know you should do, count 5-4-3-2-1 to activate your prefrontal cortex and interrupt the habit of overthinking, self-doubt, and fear.