Decision Makers Quotes

• The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?

  Peter Drucker

  Decision, Today, Faces

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.119, Routledge

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• The best decision-makers are always armed with the best information and data!

  George Raveling

  Data, Decision, Information

  FaceBook post by George Raveling from Jul 28, 2015

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• Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  People, Decision, Lines

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• There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Decision, Different, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Asking for advice is an act of humility.... The act alone says, "I need you." The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into a closer relationship.

  Dennis Bakke

  Humility, Decision, Advice

  Dennis Bakke (2010). “Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job”, p.98, PVG

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• I'm a very good decision maker because I have core set of principles and so I can make decisions. Decisions can be very hard and you have to wrestle with them, but I'm able to get all the data on the table and figure out what would be the best decision because decisions mean ill for some people and mean positives for others.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mean, Data, People

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• On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Long, Decision, Waiting

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• North Koreans are irrational to some extent, but I don't think they're totally irrational. I think they watch American cable channels. I think they watch the European cable channels. I think they, their decision makers keep up more than we know. And I think they want us to think they're a little crazy.

  William J. Clinton

  Crazy, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The decision makers face each other. No safety screen stands between the issues and the highest authorities.

  George P. Bush

  Issues, Safety, Decision

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• I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

  Jane Goodall

  Decision, Political, Trying

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• With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.

  Richard Ben-Veniste

  Respect, Decision, Information

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2004.

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• If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

  Harold H. Greene

  Real, Data, People

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• The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Islamic, Ideas

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.

  Samantha Power

  Summer, War, Israel

  Interview with in Molly Lanzarotta, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, March 14, 2007.

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• The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct investment.The multinational corporation...puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments.

  Peter Drucker

  Government, Decision, Political

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• The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among alternatives were limited and the outcomes uncertain, but almost always there were choices. Despite the variability of these individual decisions, taken cumulatively they produced clear patterns of institutional change

  Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

  Taken, Choices, Entrepreneur

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• If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

  Jim Courier

  Baseball, Math, Player

  "Interview With Davis Cup's American Coach Jim Courier". Interview with Lauren Lynch, bleacherreport.com. December 1, 2010.

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• It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have a close relationship if decision-makers in Washington know very little, if anything, about the religious beliefs, values, and practices of India's 800 million Hindus?

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Religious, Practice, Decision

  "Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Democrat, Poised To Be Elected First Hindu In Congress" by Omar Sacirbey, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.

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• The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive.

  M. Scott Peck

  Decision, Suffering, Makers

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• He's not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says 'well let me think about it.'

  Sheldon Adelson

  Thinking, Decision, Republican

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• The need to engage businesses and decision makers with customers can only increase in importance, and as it does, the market research industry must recognise that engagement is a facet of what we do.

  Alex Johnston

  Business, Decision, Doe

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• Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Decision

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.38, Jaico Publishing House

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• I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

  Bronwyn Bishop

  Leadership, Two, People

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• Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and deciding the best course of action in the face of that future are much less likely to do so. And much of what we've seen so far suggests that a large group of diverse individuals will come up with better and more robust forecasts and make more intelligent decisions than even the most skilled "decision maker."

  James Surowiecki

  Hard Work, Intelligent, Skills

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• Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day decision makers.

  Bill Jensen

  Simplicity, Decision, Needs

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