Quotes About Decision-making

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.

I personally don't prefer acting and directing in something because I don't have the same objectivity.

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

When working on your own, you can make a choice and find out six months later that you made a bad choice. But when you work with people you trust, who understand your obsessions, you can take risks.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

I just think, in every acting choice that you make, you've got to go for the least obvious choice.

Sometimes I don't even deliberate. I just decide from the bench, it's so obvious. The beautiful part is that I have carte blanche.

Success in M&As comes with executing with vigour along with the obvious right choices that you got to make.

Obviously everybody is accountable for their own actions, and everybody has to make judgments based on their own conscience as to whether or not they believe what they were doing is right or wrong.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

As a general rule, the United States government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice from economists. Others interested in helping the lawyers out need not apply.

People don't understand it, but the most intense occasions in the House of Commons were the ones I enjoyed most. When events could go either way and you could find yourself out of a job by the end of the day, those were the times when you were most on a high.

There are certain things that we can deal with by following the rules. But at times, we find the rules restrict you from doing the right things. On such occasions, we have to rethink - either you change the rules or break the rules.

Once when Stonewall Jackson planned a daring attack, one of his generals fearfully objected, saying, "I am afraid of this" or "I fear that …" Putting his hand on his timorous subordinate's shoulder, Jackson said, "General, never take counsel of your fears.

I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be.

Had Chamberlain and the Europeans stood up to Hitler in 1938, rather than appeasing him, World War II might have been prevented and the death of 405,399 Americans might have been avoided.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.

Quando você não sabe o que fazer, o melhor conselho que posso lhe dar é: não faça nada até as coisas se tornarem mais claras. Ficar em silêncio, ser capaz de ouvir a própria voz e não as vozes do mundo a seu redor, ajudará você a alcançar a clareza mais rápido. Assim que decidir o que quer, comprometa-se com essa decisão.

Every right decision I've ever made has come from my gut, and every wrong decision I've ever made was a result of me not listening.

Üstelik bizim memlekette dikbaÅŸl? olmak, kendi kendine karar vermek hoÅŸ bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir ki! Ä°nsan her zaman daa iyi bilen, daha iyi düÅŸünen birine kendini emanet etmeli, birisine baÄŸlanmal?, bir inanc? benimsemeli.

A great many young men try to justify themselves and check inward protests by the perpetual self-suggestion that it is better to keep on, for the present, in questionable occupations, because the great financial reward will put them in position to do better later. This is a sort of sedative to the conscience to keep it quiet until they can afford to listen to it.