Quotes About Decision-making

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

But in the end, we can't live our lives by 'what if' and 'if only.' We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

We have to consider who is going to be the best prime minister to take on a "one nation" agenda.

I've always tried to do the smartest and best thing.

This summer is going to be a different summer for a lot of people. Everyone is going to take care of their own business and everyone is going to do what's best for them, including me.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.

Do not let anyone else run your business

The urgent can drown out the important.

Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.

America is a business. If you can't afford to do something, no matter how much bellyaching everybody does I'm so sorry, if you can't afford it, you shouldn't do it.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

This is a tough business to run for president.

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

I'm not in the business of satisfying everybody. I'm in the business of trying to satisfy the people who elected me governor.

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.