#Decision Making Quotes

“Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.”

“Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.”

“There is no working middle course in wartime.”

“I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.”

“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”

“Two sure ways to fail- Think and never do or do and never think.”

“Say "no" to the good and say "yes" to the best.”

“There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.”

“Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.”

“The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community”

“The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.”

“Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.”

“Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.”

“I don't want to make the wrong mistake.”

“True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.”

“Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Will what I am about to do, bring me closer to, or take me further from my goals?”

“I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!”

“One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.”

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

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

“You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.”

“The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.”

“The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.”

“One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.”

“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”

“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.”

“No decision is, in itself, a decision.”

“Instinct leads, logic does but follow.”

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

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

“America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.”

“We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.”

“One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.”

“How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.”

“You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.”

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.”

“All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.”

“Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere”

“Well, one time some attractive woman sat next to Charlie and asked him what he owed his success to, and, unfortunately, she insisted on a one word answer. He had a speech prepared that would have gone on for several hours. But when forced to boil it down to one word, he said that was "rational". You know, he comes equipped for rationality, and he applies it in business. He doesn't always apply it elsewhere, but he applies it in business and that has made him a huge business success.”

“A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.”

“Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.”

“When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.”

“It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own it or to not own it now. It is obvious that an inability to "get even" in a security that has declined is of no importance. It is obvious that the inner warm glow that results from having held a winner last year is of no importance in making a decision as to whether it belongs in an optimum portfolio this year.”

“Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just figuring out that if people call you and say, 'I've got this great, wonderful idea', you don't spend 10 minutes once you know in the first sentence that it isn't a great, wonderful idea...Don't be polite and go through the whole process.”