Decision Making Quotes - Page 6

• Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Men, Decision, Information

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• Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as you can see. Then decide what to do.

  Simon Sinek

  Decision, Looks

  Twitter post from Oct 09, 2012

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• There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.

  John Wayne

  Decision, May, Hats

  "Fictional character: Davy Crockett". "The Alamo", 1960.

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• You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Decision, Census

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• Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.

  Jack Welch

  Simple, Design, Decision

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.

  Zainab Salbi

  Views, Different Experiences, Diversity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.

  Elizabeth Dole

  People, Decision, Listening

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• If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.

  Meryl Streep

  Hate, People, Decision

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• When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

  Harry S. Truman

  Decision, Bucks, Motto

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• You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Giving, Decision, Damn

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• Did it ever occur to you that there might be more than one alternative?

  Richard Dormer

  Decision, Alternatives, Might

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• My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future.

  Juliette Lewis

  Focus, Decision, World

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• Things rarely turn out the way we want them to.

  Robert De Niro

  Decision, Want, Way

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• Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Decision, Plan B, Plans

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• This 'one big plan' thinking leads to a lot of the problems we're facing.

  Clara Mamet

  Thinking, Decision, Problem

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• Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having a voice, being able to shape the future. Women's absence from decision-making positions has deprived the country of a necessary perspective.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Country, Voice, Creating

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• I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

  Bill Ackman

  Emotional, Decision, Investing

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• Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

  Donald Berwick

  Doctors, Decision, Regulation

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• So when somebody asks me to make a decision about a situation, I don't offer a solution, I ask a question: What are our options? Give me the good, give me the bad, give me the pretty, give me the ugly, give me the impossible, give me the possible, give me the convenient, give me the inconvenient. Give me the options. All I want are options. And once I have all the options before me, then I comfortably and confidently make my decision.

  Jim Rohn

  Giving, Decision, Ugly

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• This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making , a romantic interlude in the midst of normal life. Instead, decisions about whom to love are more intense versions of the sorts of decisions we make throughout the course of our existence, from what kind of gelato to order to what career to pursue. Living is an inherently emotional business.

  David Brooks

  Love Is, Emotional, Order

  "Social Animal". www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.

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• Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn’t predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did.

  Cordelia Fine

  Attitude, Self, Objectivity

  Cordelia Fine (2005). “Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences”, p.54, Icon Books Ltd

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• That is the really great thing about being an adult male, once you get married and have children the whole decision-making process is taken out of your hands, and I for one am extremely grateful.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, Taken, Grateful

  "PJ O'Rourke: 'Menus have become another intelligence test at which I fail'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2014.

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• All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

  Joshua Ferris

  Heart, Poor Decisions, Broken

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• The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Decision, Looking Forward

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• People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.

  Simon Blackburn

  Philosophical, Responsibility, Cutting

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