Quotes About Decision-making

give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me

You should take a good look at all sides of an issue before making a decision. Put something away in case of an emergency. New neighbors will bring good cheer. A small problem may occur at home base, but you will solve it quickly and correctly. Don't offer smart advice unless you are really asked to comment.

Don't take advice from people while building a house otherwise you will have a crooked house.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

The Comrade Wolf knows whom to eat, as the saying goes. It knows whom to eat and is not about to listen to anyone, it seems.

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty."

The planning process doesn't produce strategy

strategic planning should be more about collective wisdom building than top-down or bottom-up planning.

Epictetus said: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

No one has all the answers. Fortunately, it is not necessary to have all the answers for good management.

The most important figures needed for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

The assumption spreads that government best knows what is good for its people, when ultimately it does not.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Choice of attention--to pay attention to this and ignore that--is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.

You talked to us about what kind of fifth-graders we wanted to be this year. How it was all in our choices, every minute of our days. How even grownups like you had to think about it sometimes, to be the person they wanted to be.

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.

In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.