Making Decisions Quotes - Page 4

• Leadership is about making decisions with the information you have, not the information people will have 12 years later, i kind of feel sorry for my friend Jeb Bush.

  Mike Huckabee

  Leadership, Sorry, Years

  "Huckabee defends Bush on Iraq -- but doesn't want his Apple Watch" By Maeve Reston, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2015.

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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, Decision, Failing

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• It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing--especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can'tbuy that. It's about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don't think it's so much about becoming a tennis player. It's about becoming a person.

  Billie Jean King

  Player, Thinking, Choices

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• Make the basic shot-making decision early, clearly and firmly, and then ritualize all the necessary acts of preparation.

  Sam Snead

  Decision, Preparation, Shots

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• Maybe this is blasphemy to say, but I feel like music is not meant to be something that earning your keep depends on because it cheapens it and it will force you into making decisions in the interest of earning your keep, as opposed to the interest of the thing itself.

  John Maus

  Decision, Earning, Force

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I think my father was sick of being on the sidelines watching a bunch of incompetents in his mind. And in our world, in our business world, these people wouldn't last five minutes in real companies, and he's sick of them making decisions that are costing our children, their children behind them, trillions of dollars and really giving up the great power that we've built up over the last 200 years.

  Donald Trump, Jr.

  Children, Giving Up, Father

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Entrepreneurs don't really make mistakes, though. We just make decisions that seem right at the time, but which sometimes turn out to have been the wrong path to take. For example, we allowed a buyer to place a huge opening order and later had to take some product back. We didn't have our sell-through programs in place, so in hindsight, it would have been wiser to sell in less product at the outset. The scary thing is you are always making decisions without knowing the future.

  Tom Szaky

  Business, Mistake, Knowing

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• If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Focus, Decision

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.1467, Government Printing Office

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• There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

  Golda Meir

  War, Differences, Decision

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• To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.

  Warren Buffett

  Emotional, Discipline, Decision

  "3 Books That Changed Warren Buffett's Life" by Patrick Morris, www.fool.com. December 25, 2013.

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• If you think of people as making decisions actively, every time we think about the cup of coffee, we say, "How much will I enjoy the cup of coffee, what else could I not do in the future because I buy this cup of coffee?

  Dan Ariely

  Coffee, Thinking, People

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations.

  Ruth Hubbard

  Decision, Facts, Scientist

  Ruth Hubbard, Elijah Wald (1993). “Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers”, p.7, Beacon Press

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• I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage.

  Frances Stark

  Art, Editing, Decision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm scared of one man, one vote because it suggests that everybody has an equal ability at making decisions, and I think that's dangerous.

  Ray Dalio

  Men, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Rather than me sort of characterize the appropriateness or inappropriateness of what Donald Trump is doing at the moment, I think what we have to see is how will the President-elect operate, and how will his team operate, when they've been fully briefed on all these issues, they have their hands on all the levers of government, and they've got to start making decisions.

  Barack Obama

  Team, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Here in Europe some of the challenges have to do with structures that are so complicated. You've got Brussels, and you've got parliament, you've got councils and then you've got national governments. So people sometimes don't feel as if they know who's making decisions, and the more that we can bring people in and engage them, the better. Some of it is also cultural and social, people's sense of identity.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Europe, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The American people have a right to know that, when Donald Trump's making decisions, they are being made in their best interests without him lining his pockets.

  Elijah Cummings

  People, Decision, Pockets

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Socially in my alliances I wanted to just have a strong alliance and making decisions but not putting it out there but letting other people be the target in that way. I think it worked until I should not have been playing that way anymore.

  Michael Snow

  Strong, Thinking, People

  Source: www.realityravings.com

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• Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Decision, Wish

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• And the fact is - is if you lower - if you lower taxes, you don't have to wait for the money to get to the states, the money to get out in contracts. You send a signal immediately, and so businesses start making decisions.

  John Boehner

  Decision, Waiting, Facts

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 23, 2008.

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• Referees need help. Players are getting faster and fitter and too many referees are making decisions from behind the play. They see a tangle of legs, they are asked to make a decision with one, often obscured look at high speed.

  Andy Townsend

  Player, Decision, Needs

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• Sometimes when a movie is really alive you can see that they were just making decisions on the spot. They weren't bound to anything, they were working with ideas that the actors and situations presented.

  Michael Cera

  Ideas, Decision, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

  Rachel Holmes

  Writing, Decision, Shapes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Ideas, People, Decision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions have been taken; but they have no way of getting into the question of policy-making, decision-making, except insofar as the vague forces and pressures of public debate and public opinion have their impact on the President. The President still has to decide. He can't go to the people and ask them to decide for him; he has to make the decision. In that sense he was condemned to be a dictator.

  Walter Millis

  Taken, Impact, Policy Making

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