Quotes About Decision-making

I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage. My

That experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

I ask and I ask and I ask, until I begin to get a gut feeling about something. And that's when I make a decision.

Para mim, comitês são o que pessoas inseguras criam a fim de postergar a tomada de decisões difíceis.

El plan crea claridad Los planes pueden adoptar las formas más variadas, pero todo plan eficaz hace una de estas dos cosas: o bien clarifica cómo puede alguien hacer negocios con nosotros, o bien elimina la sensación de riesgo que pueda experimentar alguien al considerar si invierte en nuestros productos o servicios. ¿Te acuerdas del mantra «Si confundes, pierdes»?

Customers are much more likely to buy a $500 item if they can get it for only $200.

People don't buy products, vote for candidates, or join a movement because they are thinking rationally.

In other words, people hate losing $100 more than they like winning $100. This, of course, means loss aversion is a greater motivator of buying decisions than potential gains. In

Our sales funnels should invite people into a journey that never attempts to trick or coerce them to make a decision they will later regret.

People don't buy the best products; they buy the products they can understand the fastest.

people hate losing $100 more than they like winning $100. This, of course, means loss aversion is a greater motivator of buying decisions than potential gains.

As an entrepreneur, I choose my teachers carefully, very carefully. I am extremely cautious of the people with whom I spend my time and to whom I listen.

Before, I was paralyzed, though I didn't really know it," he said. "It was because I thought too much, lived too much in the mind. It was hard to make decisions. I felt immobilized.

Train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would go. Remember, children are born with a decided bias towards evil; therefore, if you let them choose for themselves, they are certain to choose wrong.

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

That's the difference between good military commanders and good politicians, John Geary. You've shown me that a good military commander spends the lives of their people reluctantly and with regret, but does spend them when necessary. The good politician does the same thing with principles. There aren't any fine burials for sacrificed principles, though.

This weapon I am giving you is a tool, an emergency tool. It is not to be depended upon as a first resort, or a second, or even a third. Your greatest assets will always be your mind and your ability to act on wise decisions. Fail to make proper use of those assets, and the weapon cannot save you. Remember that, Mari.

The answer? There is no answer. Only choices which can have many outcomes, some expected, and some unforeseen. Perhaps that is the only wisdom there really is, young Mage: that our choices matter. As your choices matter, perhaps more than those of anyone else at this time.

How did you know if I could swim?" he demanded, shaking water from his face. "Shouldn't you have found out if I could swim before you threw me into a river?" "Yeah," Kira said. "I should have done that. Let's—" "You're insane! Rational people do not shove other people off of trains!

You don't want to get to the top of the ladder only to find out you had it leaning up against the wrong wall.

You — no one else!

Do you want to speak to the man in charge—or the nurse who knows what's going on?

I am in charge of my own spaceship. It's my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or a starting point.