Quotes About Decision-making

Good question to ask yourself: How would the person I would like to be do what I'm about to do?

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of the body — by judicious, daily exercise.

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else's poor decision making.

Two voices struggled inside me. One that wanted to be good and brave, and one that told the good one to keep her mouth shut.

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen.

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.

Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you've had some beer.

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones

Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.

This is one of the innovator's dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with our plans.