Quotes About Decision-making

Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.

[to a teenage girl] Resolve to be economically independent before you marry anyone.

Women alone always order sole. It means something.

By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.

Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.

We should let women make their own decisions.

Mr Reichman was brilliant and very good at what he did, but he was still a man, and men rarely knew what decisions a woman had or hadn't made.

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Never would I have a man saying what or who were best for me, and that were all there were to it.

The choices that women make sometimes seems provoking and at the same time amusing. I once met a lady who said she liked my amusing facial expression.

Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want.

No, I'm not doing 'Star Wars.'

There is a dangerous chasm between what those seeking election claim they could do in office and the stark reality that once in power the real decision-making has long since been sub-contracted elsewhere.

When you really start figuring things out as a quarterback, you realize you don't have to be perfect every time, but you do have to be quick and decisive.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

The cool thing about a start-up - this is sort of the entrepreneur side of me - is that you can make it grow as much as you can. Or you can squander the talent as much as you want. But it's up to you.

In the start-up setting and in most companies, the output is action-oriented. You need to be getting things done and making decisions, often with limited information.

Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don't want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, 'What do I want to wear?' and, 'What do I want to do with Topshop?' It all kind of leads into the other things.

I believe a board in a small startup company should never vote on anything.

You can't predict the future, and you've got to go with your gut on these things, and I'm sure if you speak to a laundry list of CEOs and people who have gone through the startup process themselves, they'll say it's an endless hurdle race, and you are inevitably going to catch your legs on hurdles, and it's just how you roll with that.

Startups often have to do dubious things.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

In matters of state, one has to be full of sentiments, but one can never be sentimental.

Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.