Quotes About Decision-making

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

In chess, as in life, your choice will make all the difference.

I'd rather you waste my money than waste my time.

It is important to know when to delegate authority.

Jei kas pastatyt? veidrod?, tai veidrodžio atspindžiai b?t? matomi. Nors veidrodis atspindi ir apie tai negalvodamas, jo atspindžiai vis tiek yra preciziškai tiksl?s. Savo mintis sud?damas lyg veidrod?, kovos men? žmogus taip pat nem?stys apie sprendimus, ta?iau priklausomai nuo jo min?i? veidrodžio ryškumo, sprendimas tarp teisingo ir neteisingo bus priimtas be jokios minties.

It wouldn't do him any good to cry, no matter how much he wanted to. He had to think. He had to try to gather as much information as he could, and lay it all out, and reason through it, and come up with some ideas of what to do and how to help.

I'm a pro-choice conservative. I believe in small government and the individual's right to make choices for themselves.

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him." "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

That's why we have rules to begin with, Richie: because you can't trust your mind to tell you what's right and wrong.