Quotes About Decision-making

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

I've been very strategic in how I've approached the jobs I want to do.

Companies pay amazing amounts of money to get answers from consultants with overdeveloped confidence in their own intuition,' he

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

They didn't have to know what was coming, but they were always ready. They knew when to take the shot, and when to pass to someone else. When to talk, and when to stay silent. When to speed up, and when to slow down. When to respond to criticism, and when to laugh it off.

The ability to compete is in all of us. You compete for something every minute of the day, with every decision you make. At the basic level, you compete with daily obstacles: Should I go to the gym? Should I skip this donut? Can I get out of the house on time? Will I get my work done today?

The economist John Maynard Keynes once said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

if everything is entrusted to a single mind, its inevitable subjective distortions will distort, if not altogether disable, the innovation process.

Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner

Simon received the Nobel Prize in 1978 for his contribution to organizational decision making: It is impossible to have perfect and complete information at any given time to make a decision.

Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

Make your peace with the fact that saying 'no' often requires trading popularity for respect." —Greg McKeown, Essentialism

For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.

Happiness is a choice you make and a skill you develop.

What do you want?" is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things." –Steve Jobs

If only I had more money" is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment- now and not later. By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves the time to do otherwise.

I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. —HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE, American editor and journalist; first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize

can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Before spending time on a stress-inducing question or problem, consider this: If you can't define it or act upon it, forget it.

A common rookie error that inexperienced leaders make is always agreeing with the last person they talked to; this takes a while to get past, though it becomes easy once you get exposed to enough people who contradict each other.

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir. An explanation of scarcity for rich intellectuals, showing how poor people do stupid things for lack of money, while rich people do stupid things for lack of time.

ANY TIME I'M TELLING MYSELF, 'BUT I'M MAKING SO MUCH MONEY,' THAT'S A WARNING SIGN THAT I'M DOING THE WRONG THING.

I've never for a moment even thought about that. I don't do replays well. The question I'll never answer is, 'What would you have done differently had you known X?' I never, ever play that game because you didn't know X.