Quotes About Decision-making

Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.

You have to empower your sales staff to use their judgment and go beyond the standards set down on paper and by the computer.

I don't use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it's never because I use my brain.

Going through your reads, there is always an answer. And if you consistently, from a mental standpoint as a quarterback, go through your reads, you always give your team a chance to win.

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

I make a dribble or a simple pass, knowing that if I lose the ball near the area, the opponent can score. I am aware of what I do on the pitch, but I always do it to help the team. That's why, occasionally ,I also boot the ball into the stands.

I will take less risks. When the options aren't appearing, I will clear it into the stands or play a long ball up front.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

The only guide to man is his conscience.

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion