Decision Making Quotes

Be decisive and handle objections as they come, don't relay on others much and don't look to others to determine if you're acting right or wrong. Do what feels right for you.

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point

Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.

Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.

As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy's innate sense of responsibility. – Arthur Schlesinger

Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices.

Urgency and despair don't get along well.

It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind

Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.

Not making a decision means forgoing an opportunity.

By the time your perfect information has been gathered, the world has moved on.

Once I make a decision, I stick to it.

My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

In the matters of your life don't take orders, take decisions.

You should never make a decision the day before your period.

None of us plan--or intend--to get into trouble. The problem is, we don't plan not to.

In the end you only answer to yourself!

don't even leap to actions and decisions before you've found that sense of natural calm, well-being, or enthusiasm.

I would like to believe that logic is questioning your reasoning to reach a conclusion.

Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.

Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.

Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.

Don't just DO something. Stand there! (and get perspective and understanding)

In your daily life, you make dozens of chooses between an alternative with higher overall value and a more tempting but ultimately inferior option.

Believe what you wish, but prove what you can.

Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.

Journalism can be lethal

The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision making at work and at home.