Quotes About Decision-making

Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying no to all but the most crucial features.

7. Beware of comparison shopping

A functioning team is more than just a group of people with a common goal. It's a group of people who can work toward that common goal despite having different opinions about how to reach it. No, not everyone has the same say. No, not everyone's opinion will play a part in the end. The boss makes the final decision and will live or hang by that decision.

Achieving simplicity begins with the basic notion that you're the captain of your fate: you are in control, steer the rudder, pull the lever, flip the switch, and call the shots.

we are not wired to make decisions about barely perceptible threats that gradually accelerate over time. We're not so different from the proverbial frog that boils to death in a pot of slowly warming water.

Rob's confidence was communicated with a simple look that said, If you want to, and you don't, then that's on you.

Design by community is not design by committee…design is never democratic."[

Ben Horowitz's Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager,

That's right, kid. Never play an ace when a two will do.

I didn't much want to listen to constructive criticism from somebody whose decision making process so far seemed to be "What can I do that's more insane than the last thing I did?

Taking an active hand in evaluating alternatives is a task that is largely nonexistent in conventional selling.

Nobody makes good choices when they aren't aware they're making a choice.

way counselors would shut someone down when they started arguing that they didn't have to listen, they were going to do it their own way. The counselors would point out that "Your best thinking is what put you here.

Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall to the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

But intellect does not inform matters of the heart. Regrets

For the ability to answer three simple questions: 'what to change?', 'what to change to?', and 'how to cause the change?' Basically what we are asking for is the most fundamental abilities one would expect from a manager.

Mrs. Arbuthnot said she did see, but nevertheless she thought it rather silly to have everything taken out of their hands. I love things to be taken out of my hands, said Mrs. Wilkins.

I decided in high school that I wasn't going to get married too soon. I'd forgotten that you can also wait too long, and then the only candies left in the box are the squished ones, rejected for their questionable insides. And if I'm honest, I'd have to count myself among those with questionable insides.

I sit in the driver's seat concerning most of the structure of my every day, including growing in the Lord. I decide whether the things of the Lord are really that important to me…or not. I decide whether I will make the effort to grow…or not. I decide whether I will schedule in the time it takes to grow, to meet with God regularly, to stop, look, and listen to Him by reading my Bible…or not.

She was of the mind that people should make their own decisions about their own lives, if you can image such a preposterous thing.

The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea- that it is ultimately entirely up to you- the better off you'll be.

Sometimes it's just true that other people have better ideas for your life than you do.

And try not to make a habit of getting engaged in the first place, Vivvie. It can leade to marriage if you're not careful.

The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea—that it is ultimately entirely up to you—the better off you'll be.