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• There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

  Joseph Addison

  Business

  'The Drummer' (1716) act 5, sc. 1

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• Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

  Cullen Hightower

  Business, Agreement, May

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  The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

  Walter Wriston

  Business, Blow, Organization

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• Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Business, Creativity, Imagination

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• False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.

  Jerome Groopman

  Real, Choices, Decision

  Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.130, Random House

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• When the Founders thought of democracy, they saw democracy in the political sphere - a sphere strictly limited by the Constitution's well-defined and enumerated powers given the federal government. Substituting democratic decision making for what should be private decision making is nothing less than tyranny dressed up.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, Political, Decision

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• Good question to ask yourself: How would the person I would like to be do what I'm about to do?

  Jim Cathcart

  Decision, Good Questions, Persons

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• Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the recognized possibility of failure in fact occurs. But over time, more thoughtful decision-making will lead to better overall results, and more thoughtful decision-making can be encouraged by evaluating decisions on how well they were made rather than on outcome.

  Robert Rubin

  Successful, Thoughtful, Decision

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• Using the ‘military decision-making process’ is extremely valuable when making policy decisions.

  Joe Heck

  Military, Decision, Process

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.

  Tim Ferriss

  Independent, Goal, Entrepreneur

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• We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains.

  Dan Ariely

  Mistake, Decision, Brain

  "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions". Book by Dan Ariely, February 19, 2008.

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• The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.

  Kenneth C. Frazier

  Lying, Thinking, People

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• Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

  Biz Stone

  Careers, Design, Creative

  "What is Biz Stone doing?" by Carolyne Zinko, www.sfgate.com. April 5, 2009.

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• While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

  Narendra Modi

  Mean, Decision, India

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• Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

  Richard Louv

  Art, Nature, Math

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.162, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO's continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and a capable contributor to international security. We appreciate your quick decision to deploy forces, planes and ships to strengthen our collective defence in view of Russia's aggressive actions in Ukraine, as well as your contribution to the international anti-ISIL coalition. Canada plays a major part in our decision-making and helps keep the vital bond between Europe and North America strong.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Strong, America, Ukraine

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• For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper chamber in the European parliament, a new bridge could be built between national political classes, which retain democratic legitimacy, and the decision-making process in Brussels. Such a Senate should be recruited by indirect election from exisiting national parliaments.

  Larry Siedentop

  Bridges, Class, Creating

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• We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, were free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Decision, Needs, Use

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• For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it; the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us.

  Harlan Cleveland

  Real, Learning, Simple

  Harlan Cleveland (1966). “The obligations of power: American diplomacy in the search for peace”

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• Money follows mission, not the reverse. This is a shorthand way of saying that the stronger the congregation's relational characteristics, the easier it is to raise money. The stronger the congregation's mission, visitation, groupings, leadership, and decision making, the stronger the giving.

  Kennon Callahan

  Giving, Decision, Stronger

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• My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all "movies" for me. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.

  Werner Herzog

  Decision, Fiction, Way

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2007.

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• Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your trip, you can still find yourself in a mud slide or a hurricane without a dry piece of clothing to your name. But those of us who have given our time and usually our hearts to outdoorsmen over the years know that, for many of them, it's not really a wilderness trip unless, MacGyver-like, they have to make a fire out of a pair of shorts, a glow stick, and a ketchup bottle; it's not really an adventure until someone gets airlifted out.

  Pam Houston

  Adventure, Heart, Years

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• The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

  Bashar al-Assad

  People, Decision, Political

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• Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Change, Religious, Men

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• Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

  Mark Millar

  Skills, Decision, Traits

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