Decision Quotes
Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!
My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
It's not what we do once in a while that counts, but our habitual actions. What ultimately determines who we become and where we go in life are our decisions. These decisions shape our destiny.
Once you have made a decision and there is no turning back, acceptance is the only comfort.
For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.
Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.
I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.
Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.
I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.
I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.
Our decisions, once executed, can never be erased. This is because such selections introduce a new series of conditions setting in motion events which cannot later be recalled.
Whatever career you're in, assume it's going to be a massive failure. That way, you're not making decisions based on success, money and career. You're only making it based on doing what you love.
I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.
If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it’s an error not an end.
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.
I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.
The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.
Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.
Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
I am so thankful I had the strength and promises of a loving God to guide my choices and decisions, and to uphold me through the unbelievably dark days and times of overwhelming sorrow.
What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.
The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself.
At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.
The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams
Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.
Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.
Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up
Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.
If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.
I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.