Decision Making Quotes - Page 9

• Most questions are clear when someone else has to decide them.

  Howard Da Silva

  Decision, Clear

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• Why argue about decisions you're not powerful enough to make yourself?

  John Houseman

  Powerful, Decision, Arguing

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• I find if I just sit down and think, a solution presents itself.

  Sean Connery

  Thinking, Decision, Down And

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• Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

  Al Pacino

  Decision, Looking Forward, Life Is

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• The choices that you make will shape your life forever.

  Francis Capra

  Choices, Decision, Forever

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• One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?

  Martha Plimpton

  Decision, Want

  "Fictional character: Jan". "Beautiful Girls", 1996.

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• They don't make you what you are, you do. You are what you choose to be.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Decision, You Choose

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• Impossible to see, the future is.

  Frank Oz

  Decision, Impossible

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• No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is that bad decisions will get made.

  James Surowiecki

  Giving, Decision, Mind

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.220, Anchor

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• Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.

  Simon Sinek

  Decision, Results, Term

  "Getting the Best Leaders Takes More Than Money" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations.

  Aruna Roy

  Strength, Responsibility, People

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• When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.

  George S. Patton

  Decision, Made, Right Time

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• All models are wrong, but some are useful.

  George E. P. Box

  Knowledge, Math, Science

  George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.414, John Wiley & Sons

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• Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Determination, Decision

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 27, 2014

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• Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

  William Arthur Ward

  Success, Business, Positivity

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.

  Thomas Sowell

  Freedom, People, Decision

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• I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Thinking, Choices, Decision

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• If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Decision, World, Whole

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.369, Penguin

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• I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights.

  Emma Watson

  Country, Men, Thinking

  "Will Feminism Be Reborn? A Sign of Hope" by Kathleen Kelley Reardon, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• This isnt the time to make hard and fast decisions, this is a time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere. Fall in love, a lot. Major in philosophy, because theres no way to make a career out of that. Change your mind and change it again, because nothings permanent.

  Anna Kendrick

  Falling In Love, Philosophy, Mistake

  "Fictional character: Jessica". "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships. It's funny, isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up in costumes and celebrate fear.

  James Spader

  Funny, Life, Relationship

  "The Office: Spooked". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.

  Judy Holliday

  New York, Want, Pages

  "Fictional character: Billie Dawn". "Born Yesterday", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing, Market Risk

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.

  Steve Odland

  Independent, Eye, Decision

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• Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions.

  James C. Collins

  Leadership, Decision, Needs

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