Quotes About Decision-making

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.

A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.