Quotes About Decision-making

An entertainment property - specifically, a wrestling property - you have to have a decision maker. You have to have somebody who sits on top, that is guiding the ship, that makes the decisions.

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.

It's a simple quality of human nature that people prefer to choose to do things rather than be ordered to do them. In fact, as soon as you tell me I have to do something - give a speech, attend a banquet, go to Cannes - I immediately start looking for ways to avoid doing it.

I know when I need to be pushing it full speed; I know when I got to probe and allow the flow to open up, because, at the end of the day, on the basketball court, something's going to open up.

Use your assets in the right areas. Commit to outside speed. Don't always go into the junk pile in the middle of the ice when there are eight guys there.

I spent 23 years in the military. I think I'm in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.

In the hundreds of hours spent in Parliament debating Brexit, I constantly think of how we could have spent our time better.

If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.

Real people have trouble balancing their checkbooks, much less calculating how much they need to save for retirement; they sometimes binge on food, drink, or high-definition televisions. They are more like Homer Simpson than Mr. Spock.

Happiness is a choice; not just a matter of genes or good luck.

To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'.

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.