Quick Decisions Quotes

• Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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  Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Patience

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Decision, Answers

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• A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

  Grantland Rice

  Confidence, Wise, Wisdom

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• The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  Mistake, Long, Decision

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• Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

  Sophocles

  Decision, Unsafe

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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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• One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

  Larry Niven

  Decision, Leader, Mark

  "Ringworld". Book by Larry Niven, 1970.

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• When you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Patience, Spring

  Robert H. Schuller (1986). “Inspirational Writings of Robert H. Schuller”, Bristol Park Books

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• Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Patience, Spring, Decisions You Make

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Patience, Spring

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

  Nevil Shute

  Airplane, Climbing, Flying

  Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”

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• Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right.

  Kin Hubbard

  Business, Men, Decision

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• If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.

  Nevil Shute

  Sports, Character, Climbing

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• Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

  Ted Shackelford

  Decision, Television, Constraints

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• In a way an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn't think you're safe when you're out.

  Larry Goetz

  Thinking, Umpires, Decision

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• Another idea that is changing is that the leader must be one who can make quick decisions. The leader to-day is often one who thinks out his decisions very slowly.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Thinking, Ideas

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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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• What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.

  Ang Lee

  Decision

  "The long and the shirt of it". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2003.

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