Top 1200 Decision Makers Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.

Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.

Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision of the majority, be it wise or unwise, until such a time that the majority reaches another decision.

Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.

Almost any decision is better than no decision -- just keep moving.

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

I always take everything serious when it comes to my career and my life, but this decision to go back to the cage is a big decision for me.

We are all trained to be data driven people, but no hard data exist about the future. Therefore, the only way to look into the future with any degree of accuracy is to use theory, statements of what causes what and why. If executives have the right theories in their heads, they can very quickly interpret market developments. They can identify what matters and why, and act accordingly. So we suggest decision-makers should start by gaining a deep understanding of the relevant collection of theories, and then be alert for signals that indicate certain types of developments.

Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.

I always roll with the way things are, so as soon as one decision happens, you just realign and move on and make another decision.

If you ever make a decision that doesn't put the kids first, it is the wrong decision.

I made the decision to keep putting one foot in front of the other, and looking back that was a really stupid decision

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.

I believe nobody has the right to judge me as an athlete because of my decision to be with who I want. It is a personal decision, which should be respected.

My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.

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.

To me, every decision needn't be a 'big-bang' reform but a signal of proactive decision-making and removal of red tape and bureaucracy.

Do something today you've been afraid to do. A decision based on fear is the wrong decision.

If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.

Other than my marriage, the decision to get a Ph.D. was probably the best decision of my life.

I always tell people when it's time to make a decision to stay or go [at a job], if it's a difficult decision, you should stay. If it's an easy decision, you should go.

In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

So, it was a tough decision to leave Facebook, but it was definitely the right decision. I haven't regretted it at all.

If you don't make a decision about how you are going to live, then you have already made a decision, haven't you?

Every decision has a cost. Do I have to make this decision at all or can I move on to the next thing? What we decided to leave out is almost as important as what we put in.

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.

The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty.

The decision to put American lives at risk is a decision that has a very high hurdle to pass.

People ask me about the decision to transition from fashion to 'Rookie' magazine. But it wasn't a decision. I was 14, and my interests were changing.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

Let me tell you, if you're ever making a decision and the principle reason you'll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision.

Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.

Every decision you make, you got to stand on that decision.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.

Oftentimes the easy decision and comfortable decision is not the right one.

Nothing motivates like success. While academics, consultants and gurus are preoccupied with coming up with great insights and seminal ideas, usually they don't realize that making things happen, achieving operational excellence, moving the organization from uncertainty to clarity, from red ink to black, is what really creates hope for a better future. Therefore, great leadership always involves great ideas and real actions that reinforce a strong belief in the excellence of the decision makers and in the viability of the organization itself.

When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when the leader has to step in and make a decision because there is no easy consensus, team members will accept that decision because they know that their ideas were heard and considered.

My decision was, and the decision of the different institutions, and the decision of the different officials in Syria - I'm on top of them - was to have dialogue, to fight terrorists, and to reform as a response at the very beginning, response to the allegations, let's say, at that time, that they needed reform in Syria, we responded.

The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.

Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.

Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy trade-off in the monkey's decision, and you can see from the neuron's activity at what point in his accumulation of evidence he makes his decision to make a particular movement.

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment.

I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

There are some political issues where mainstream press attention only hurts. We think about activism as being this generic model of consciousness-raising, then hopefully media attention, attraction of new people to your cause, building public support for your cause, then decision-makers reacting to that change in public opinion. That's true for some types of activism, but it is not true for all of them.

What is a decision? It's a tool to remove confusion! Are you confused? If so, then make the decision and let's move on!

A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision.

We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.

Obviously, nobody chooses not to have kids because they'd rather sleep in late. It's a very visceral decision, and it's a complicated decision.