Top 1200 Big Decisions Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.

At State Bank, all decisions are collective decisions. I have created the comfort zone.

Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.

The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.

Increasingly, our decisions will be made by the algorithms that surround us. Whenever there is a big dilemma, you just ask Google what to do. And what kind of life is that?

Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,"and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like you to meet Kevin. Kevin is eighteen and will be making all of your career decisions for you.' I'd be flipped out. Wouldn't you? But that's what life is all about - some eighteen-year-old kid making your big decisions for you that stick for a lifetime." He shuddered.

Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.

Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I'm not around.

The era of roadside decisions, declarations have gone. My government's decisions will be guided by teamwork and consultations.

It's how you make decisions that matters, and that ought to be the question that people ask of any candidate for any executive office, whether it's mayor, governor or president. How do you make decisions? Who do you want in the room helping you make those decisions?

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the: process: by which decisions are made. Often what they propose amounts to third-party decision making by people who pay no cost for being wrong-surely one of the least promising ways of reaching decisions satisfactory to those who must live with the consequences.

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

The interests of big corporations have so permeated government that its major decisions are indistinguishable from the boardroom demands of the leading companies in each commercial sector.

Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

The big problem in making the hard decisions has much to do with the personal and professional well-being of the person making the call.

The interesting thing I learned was that if you're really concerned about your health, the best decisions for your health turn out to be the best decisions for the farmers and the best decisions for the environment-and that there is no contradiction there.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

If you're big in Montreal, you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto, you're big in Canada. But if you're big in New York, you're big in the rest of the world.

There was no grand scheme, no big push, there are things I would have done differently now but you make decisions on the hop and it takes you where you are.

Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options.

I have a little easier time watching the NFL than college or high school. I used to go to the high school games, and now I have trouble with it. The NFL players get big rewards from it. I feel at least the NFL has made big changes to help their safety. And they're adults - they can make good decisions.

Our lives will depend upon the decisions which we make, for decisions determine destiny.

The challenge that we faced with the arrival of the Obama administration is, they didn't really have time to build trust before they had to make big, difficult decisions.

I enjoy my work. The reason I worked so hard all my life is because I want to be making big decisions and managing at the very highest level.

I'm a very good decision maker because I have core set of principles and so I can make decisions. Decisions can be very hard and you have to wrestle with them, but I'm able to get all the data on the table and figure out what would be the best decision because decisions mean ill for some people and mean positives for others.

A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.

It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward

I try to make good decisions as decisions come up.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.

Now there are times when I have to make big decisions as I'm now running a company and that it's OK to go with being respected first.

Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken, decisions aimed at strengthening that covenant between human beings and the environment, which should mirror the creative love of God, from whom we came and towards whom we are journeying.

For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions!

We believe that we decide. We do make decisions. But the deeper decisions come from another part of our being that we're not particularly aware of yet.

The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of tolerance.

What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions.

A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not at all about technology - they are about politics, and they need to be scrutinized as closely as we would scrutinize decisions about politics.

What drives 90 percent of stuff is not the small tactical decisions or the personal relationships but the big, macro political incentives.

I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.

I'm a big believer in investing for the long term, and the decisions you make shouldn't be made if the economy is good or bad at a specific time.

When there are hiring decisions and promotion decisions to be made, people are hungry for data.

A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them....Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions.

You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.

I want the Iraqis to understand that we are with them and that they have to make tough decisions, and we'll help them make those tough decisions for this country, for this democracy to survive. And they've made some tough decisions.

We all make decisions, and within those decisions, we have consequences.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

That is the great thing about policing, you do have a lot of responsibility very early and you have got to make decisions, sometimes life and death decisions, very quickly and there is something about putting a uniform on and thinking 'people are looking to me to make decisions and to look after them' that makes you feel capable.

We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.

Music is decisions, and I decide for me what are brilliant decisions.

Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital investment in a major printing press. That's a big difference. Same is true of more advanced technologies - it can offer plenty of liberatory possibilities - can - but whether it does or not or whether it serves for coercion depends on socioeconomic decisions.

People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us. ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.

Your natural decisions are the decisions that are going to be good.

We should have equivalent due-process protections for algorithmic decisions as for human decisions.

Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.