Quotes About Decision-making

If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.

I think I can achieve more outside the political arena.

If, in all the circumstances of life a man does not turn over and over both things and ideas in order to examine them thoroughly under their different aspects before taking action, that man is weak and incomplete and in danger of fatal failure.

When his opponent, after careful conversation, avowed the secret of his own purposes, confident that he had secured his listener's assent, Grandet answered: "I can decide nothing without consulting my wife." His wife, whom he had reduced to a state of helpless slavery, was a useful screen to him in business.

There are fools that love without calculation and wise men that calculate while they love.

He sprang to his feet, and cried roughly, 'I'll give you a handful of Yeses and Noes, Jessamine, and it'll keep you amused for the rest of the evening sorting them out, and sticking them on to your questions. I'm going out.

The first rule is never to split your forces unless it is necessary to survival. The second rule is to attack if you are going to fight, and if you are not going to attack, avoid battle. The third rule is to choose the time and place of battle and never leave that choice to the enemy. The fourth rule is to avoid encirclement at all cost. And the final rule is to attack and destroy the enemy where he is weakest.

At an early age I made up my mind never to have bills when I grew up. I could not know then that this determination would extend eventually to the point of not being married or having a family of my own.

He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client.

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says. No, Olivia, just one." How about four?" Two." Three." Oh, all right, three. But that's it!

Relatives and patients also want something to be done, rather than 'nothing' (which is how they perceive non-operative treatment).

Price is not the same thing as value. Over the long term, value should be the same as a price that leads to proper decisions about consumption, exploitation, and investment, without extinguishing the resource.

Hitler's unmethodical, even casual, approach to the flood of often serious matters of government brought to his attention was a guarantee of administrative disorder. 'He disliked reading files,' recalled Wiedemann. 'I got decisions out of him, even on very important matters, without him ever asking me for the relevant papers. He took the view that many things sorted themselves out if they were left alone.

Democrats hold that governments are legitimate when those who are affected by decisions play an appropriate role in making them and when there are meaningful opportunities to oppose the government of the day, replacing it with an alternative.

The purpose of the Adizes Method is to achieve the process of management described in this book. People participate on subjects which either affect them or to which they have something to contribute. Via synerteams and the POCs, they can change whatever can and needs to be changed. And the structured, disciplined decision-making process of the Adizes Method enables people to feel responsible for the decisions that are made cooperatively.

The Arsonist's individualism creates centralization in decision making, but it is decision making with an interesting managerial twist. The Arsonist's decisions are extremely vague, and yet he expects the details to be worked out in exact accordance with wishes that he never explained fully and was probably unaware of initially.

Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.

Si insistes en comprar mala comida, debes estar preparado para que no te apetezca comerla.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

The life I am experiencing, good or bad, is the collective result of the choices I have made, knowingly or unknowingly. When I accept this, I acknowledge that I have the power to create my destiny.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.