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• The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Friendly, Important

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• Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Winning, Failing, Afraid To Fail

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• By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life, and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.

  Billy Graham

  Son, Simple, World

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.99, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• While the apostles of the new so-called "behavioral" theory present ample evidence of how often human beings make irrational financial decisions, it remains to be seen whether these decisions lead to predictable errors that create systematic mispricings upon which rational investors can readily and economically capitalize.

  John C. Bogle

  Errors, Investing, Systematic

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• When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple.

  Tony Robbins

  Simple, Priorities, Important

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.400, Simon and Schuster

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• As Graham, Dodd and Buffett have all said, you should always remember that you don't have to swing at every pitch. You can wait for opportunities that fit your criteria and if you don't find them, patiently wait. Deciding not to panic is still a decision.

  Seth Klarman

  Opportunity, Swings, Waiting

  "Channeling Graham and Dodd: A Conversation with Seth Klarman". Value Investor Insight Interview, seekingalpha.com. October 29, 2008.

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• Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

  Mason Cooley

  Inevitable, Absent Minded, Seems

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• When I look at the records and see where my place in the history of the game (in Japan with Orix) might be, I guess you could say it was a good decision to come here. It's not just me. Maybe I'll have an effect on others in the international part of the game.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Japan, Games, Looks

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• My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

  Richard M. Nixon

  Art, Peace, Reading

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• Thinking is hard. Making value judgments is difficult. It places you at pure creation, because there are so many times you'll have to say, "I don't know. I just don't know." Yet still you'll have to decide. And so you'll have to choose. You'll have to make an arbitrary choice. Such a choice - a decision coming from no previous personal knowledge - is called pure creation. And the individual is aware, deeply aware, that in the making of such decisions is the Self created.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Thinking

  "Conversations with God". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, December 1998.

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• The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better than the last one. The 'American dream' also means a democratic political system in which most people feel they can affect public decisions and elect officials who will speak for them. In recent years, the dream has been fading.

  Alice Rivlin

  Dream, Mean, Hard Work

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• As long as you make your own decision and do thing because it feels good to you, there will always be people who agree and people who don’t.

  Kristen Stewart

  Long, People, Feel Good

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• The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Law, Sky, Voice

  "Southern Pacific Company v. Jensen 244 U.S. 205, 222". Dissenting opinion, May 21, 1917.

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• The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Moving, World, Significant

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• Making a decision to sell is the most difficult thing we do.

  Walter Schloss

  Investing, Difficult, Sells

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• There is a force that controls all your decisions. It influences how you think and feel every moment you're alive. It determines what you will do and what you will not do. It determines how you feel about anything that occurs in your life. That force is your beliefs.

  Tony Robbins

  Thinking, Alive, How You Feel

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Notes From A Friend: A Quick and Simple Guide to Taking Charge of Your Life”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't labor forever over the question of how or if you can do it. Studies have shown that the most successful people make decisions rapidly because they are clear on their values and what they really want for their lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Successful, People, Forever

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• As the eldest in the family, I'm used to making unpopular decisions.

  Hetty King

  Used, Eldest, Unpopular Decisions

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• Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.

  Wayne Dyer

  Friends, Writing, Phones

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 17, 2012

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• Markets are efficient, but there are different dimensions of risk and those lead to different dimensions of expected returns. That's what people should be concerned with in their investment decisions and not with whether they can pick stocks, pick winners and losers among the various managers delivering basically the same product.

  Eugene Fama

  People, Risk, Different

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• The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.

  Benjamin Graham

  Mistake, Loss, Effort

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Leadership, Common

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• I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right. They are simply judgments. Assessments. Decisions. For the most part, they are decisions made not by you, but by someone else. Your parents, perhaps. Your religion. Your teachers, historians, politicians.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Teacher, Religious

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.69, Penguin

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• I had made what I believe was one of the more valuable decisions of my business life. This was to confine all efforts solely to making major gains in the long-run.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Running, Believe, Long

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• The decision [to create a theme park called "EuroWorld"] was made by the EU countries in response to their collective realization that no one in Europe has had an innovative idea in well over a century.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Country, Europe, Ideas

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