Decision Making Quotes

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.

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

You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.

Every time you make a decision, you mess with someone's life.

Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?

I grew up always admiring business owners. I was always interested in knowing who pulled what strings. I've always been in love with the decision making process, not just the product.

It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.

A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point.

Maybe don't make it so.

A life that is planned is a closed life, my friend. It can be endured but it cannot be lived.

Design is nothing if not decision making.

What is necessary is never unwise.

You're either an activist or an inactivist. I want to stop this.

The only certainty is uncertainty

I have no desire to prolong uncertainty.

Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

Decision making is the specific executive task.

Decision-making is lonely.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

I'm on the verge of taking a stand.

Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B.

Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.

Impossible to see, the future is.

Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as you can see. Then decide what to do.

Most questions are clear when someone else has to decide them.

Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

I think all decision making is very instinctive, in the end.

You have to be willing to have the decision-making follow the data.

Under our [constitutional system] - either we're going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we're going to have to rethink our process of decision-making.

One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?

So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.

Courage and confidence are what decision making is all about.

They don't make you what you are, you do. You are what you choose to be.