Quotes About Decision-making

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

Whenever you're confronted with a tough work situation, stop for a second and try to honestly answer this question: Am I approaching this emotionally or am I approaching this professionally?

Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.

I wouldn't know what to do on a date. I don't have the time. To make a relationship work, I'd have to give something up, and I'm not so sure I'm willing to do that.

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Show the youth the consequences of their actions and why they should choose wisely

You can resolve any situation with wisdom

Don't invest everything in another man's calling

Life becomes a dilemma when you are living a purposeless and goalless life

Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two.

Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.

I was told, 'Your career's made by what you don't do,' and that always stuck with me. I drive my agent mad!

You might say those who can't repay their student debts shouldn't have borrowed in the first place. But they had no way of knowing just how bad the jobs market would become.

The new American dream is one of responsibility. What is the bottom-line number that you're going to be able to pay back toward a student loan responsibly if you're doing it yourself after you have a job? That dictates the amount of money you can borrow. That dictates the school you can go to, if you can even go to a four-year college at all.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, 'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a director.'

There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection.

At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard.

I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

The basis of my confidence is that I wasn't a talented player. I was a talented human being. At school, I always had good figures. I was the captain of all my football teams. I studied physical education at the Academy, so I learned to analyse, to observe, and to take decisions.

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.