Decision Making Quotes

Horton, the kangaroo has sent Vlad!' Vlad? I know two Vlads. One is a cute little bunny that brings me cookies. The other is bad Vlad. Which Vlad?' Which one do you think?' Bad Vlad?' Good call.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.

You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Strategy is figuring out what not to do.

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.

Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.

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.

Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you've made and why they were poor. I've made lots of mistakes. I'm going to make more. It's the name of the game. You don't want to expect perfection in yourself. You want to strive to do your best. It's too demanding to expect perfection in yourself.

I reserve the right, as president of the United States to meet with anybody at a time and place of my choosing if I think it's going to keep America safe.

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.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Follow your heart, but check it with your head.

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others.

In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.

Creating Change - The first step to creating any change is deciding what you do want so that you have something to move toward.

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

Nothing happens until you decide.

Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.

Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.

Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn't. And so this year, I thought, "Oh, my god, I don't have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I'm going to do it."

Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end a large troop presence overseas.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.

Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

A person sometimes can't make a decision unless they know what decision to make.

One of the interesting things about being in public life is there are constantly these pressures being placed on you from different sides. To be effective, you have to be able to listen to a variety of points of view, synthesize viewpoints.

The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'

Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

Don't be afraid of making decisions.

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).

Very successful people say no to almost everything.

Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

I'm sick of Soup Of The Day, man. It's time we make a decision. I need to know what Soup From Now On is.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

Don't let fear govern your decision.

Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!

Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself

The truth is I have from the very beginning listened to my instincts. All of my best decisions in life have come because I was attuned to what really felt like the next right move for me.

When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

You have to go with your instincts.

You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.