Quotes About Decision-making

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.

In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.

Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant.

I've always been open. That's made my resume. I go with what happens, and then I try to make good choices with what I get offered.

anger cancels good judgement!

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.