Quotes About Decision-making

You cannot have the financial system crippled because of lack of decision making and lack of quality people.

How are you supposed to know what you want?" […] "I think that when you don't know, you should just wait until you do.

You are the leader. You can't do away with tension. You can manage it.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

a politician's capacity to ignore contradictory evidence

We take the position that research - not anecdotes, not "plausible beliefs", not common sense, and not our everyday experience - should be the basis for understanding and evaluating our decision-making achievements and defeats.

All meine Grenzgänge sind ausschließlich meiner Verantwortung unterworfen. »Höhere« und unpersönliche Regeln gibt es in diesem Zusammenhang nicht. Ich fragte auch nie nach »erlaubt oder verboten«, es ging mir immer nur um »möglich oder unmöglich«. Sinn gab allein ich selbst meinem Tun.

all that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment

we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.

I had always a most earnest desire to know how to distinguish the true from the false, in order that I might be able clearly to discriminate the right path in life, and proceed it in with confidence.

entre plusieurs opinions également reçues, je ne choisissais que les plus modérées, tant à cause que ce sont toujours les plus commodes pour la pratique, et vraisemblablement les meilleures, tous excès ayant coutume d'être mauvais, comme aussi afin de me détourner moins du vrai chemin, en cas que je faillisse, que si, ayant choisi l'un des extrêmes, c'eût été l'autre qu'il fallu suivre. (3e partie, para 2)

c'est une vérité très certaine que, lorsqu'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de discerner les plus vraies opinions, nous devons suivre les plus probables partie 3, para 3)

As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.

Life is presenting every person and circumstance to you so you can choose what you love and what you don't love. When you react to anything, you are reacting with your feelings, and as you do so, you are choosing it.

Intuition, luck, mistakes, serendipity—there you have four vital business concepts that every manager should know.

A TIDY SPELL" I've just been through a tidy spell, I tell you it's a verity, I've sorted out the things to keep, The things to give to charity. I've sorted out my ties and belts, I've sorted out my shirts, I've sorted out my coats and slacks--- To part with some it hurts. I've sorted out my shoes and socks, I've sorted out my shorts, I've sorted out so much, in fact, That now I'm out of sorts. -by Richard Armour

people's stupidity probably explains much of what people do and don't do, as I have conceded all along in this book.

There is no way to satisfy the desires of all the people who clamor for their time, so leaders must subjugate their schedule to God's will and invest themselves in those activities and projects most critical. Unlike

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

hay un área en las que usted debe meterse y hacer buena parte de trabajo por sí mismo es el proceso de contratación.

Sea como sea, cuando hay un líder autoritario en la cima de la pirámide, lo más probable es que las personas en las capas inferiores tengan menor capacidad para tomar decisiones oportunas, basándose en sus instintos. Preferirán, en cambio, remitir las cosas al nivel superior, con lo cual reducen las posibilidades de equivocarse y/o de excederse respecto a sus funciones asignadas.

Los grandes líderes casi siempre son unos grandes simplificadores, que reducen las discusiones, los debates y las dudas a sus elementos esenciales, a fin de ofrecer una solución que todo el mundo pueda entender". COLIN POWELL

Alexander called this process of stopping and thinking about actions before carrying them out - INHIBITION.

Being a leader involves choosing the right men to do the right job and letting them do it their way.