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Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake. -- Peter Drucker
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making. -- Simon Sinek
So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work. -- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. -- George Bernard Shaw
Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making. -- Frans de Waal
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. -- Peter Drucker
You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. -- Michelle Obama
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. -- Stephen Covey
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -- J. K. Rowling
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making. -- Andrew Young
Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort. -- Helene Cixous
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. -- Scott Adams
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. -- Pythagoras
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. -- Noam Chomsky
I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do. -- Mario Testino
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution. -- Robert H. Schuller
When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making. -- Bob Woodward
Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom. -- Sakyong Mipham
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. -- Edward de Bono
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? -- Elias Canetti
Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation. -- Charles Rangel
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. -- Isaac Asimov
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. -- Jim Rohn
I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts. -- Bill Ackman
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. -- Noam Chomsky
It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence. -- Alva Noto
Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit. -- William Pollard
As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making - I don't like knee jerk decisions - but I'm not afraid to make decisions. -- Ron Jaworski
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. -- Thomas Sowell
On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it. -- Mitt Romney
There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them. -- Jon Voight
Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine. -- Sebastian Coe
Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way. -- James E. Faust
The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day. -- Emily Oster
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it. -- Bashar al-Assad
Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read? -- Naveen Jain
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy. -- Daniel Kahneman
When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off. -- Gina McCarthy
I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000. -- Daniel Kahneman
Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem. -- Steven Johnson
I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong. -- Veerappa Moily
We are deluged with information. We have to process now three times as much data as we would have done 50 years ago. We're bombarded with tweets, with emails - a state of continuous disruption - and that's bad for our decision making and bad for our thinking. -- Noreena Hertz
The Internet has allowed a lot of access - people feel entitled to change the ending of games, for example. So there are a lot more voices coming at you all the time, which I think has its effect on creative decision making and possibly makes people more afraid to take risks. -- Tim Schafer
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature. -- Sigmund Freud
All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise. -- Tony Robbins
Decision making is the specific executive task. -- Peter Drucker
Design is nothing if not decision making. -- Henry Petroski
Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making. -- Emily Oster
Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude. -- Jim Leach
Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making. -- Michael Eisner
I'm scared of people with power making the decision. -- Ray Dalio
Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war. -- Jim Rohn
Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait. -- Mark Millar
Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making. -- Peter Diamandis
The sweetest part is acting after making a decision. -- Emily Saliers
People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy. -- Stan Shih
Courage and confidence are what decision making is all about. -- Mike Krzyzewski
The hard part is implementing the decision, not making it. -- Guy Kawasaki
Design is a career where you learn creative decision making. -- Biz Stone
The electronic town hall allows for speedy communications and bad decision-making. -- David Shenk
A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making. -- Harsha Bhogle
The difficulty is not making a decision, it's living with the consequences. -- Micah Baldwin
Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making. -- M. Russell Ballard
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Using the 'military decision-making process' is extremely valuable when making policy decisions. -- Joe Heck
If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry. -- Carly Fiorina
Whenever it comes to decision making, Remember the part about having confidence. -- Auliq Ice
Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making -- Jack Dangermond
When you're having trouble making a decision you're making it too soon. -- Esther Hicks
It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making. -- Cory Doctorow
I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision. -- Katie Leung
You have to be willing to have the decision-making follow the data. -- Ted Cruz
Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum. -- Manmohan Singh
Making a decision to sell is the most difficult thing we do. -- Walter Schloss
Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us. -- Steve Berry
Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm. -- Emily Oster
You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever. -- Joan Didion
When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on". -- Martha Beck
A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision. -- Reggie Watts
You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies. -- Steve Odland
The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making. -- Geoff Mulgan
If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils. -- Rajneesh
Doing nothing is also an action; not making a decision is making a decision. -- Bohdi Sanders
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss. -- Charles Duhigg
When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. -- Tony Robbins
Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process. -- Gyorgy Konrad
Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique -- Jeff Van Gundy
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. -- Phil Crosby
I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are. -- Hillary Clinton
Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision. -- Robin Sharma
Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content. -- Anthony Stafford Beer
This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making. -- Steve Ballmer
True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. -- John Wayne
Without the possibility of making mistakes, we wouldn't need to bother about making a decision. -- Daniel Englisch
My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people. -- Laurie Anderson
If you're going to decide to run a data-driven campaign, decision-making has to follow it. -- Ted Cruz
Not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same. -- Lysa TerKeurst
The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action. -- Joseph M. Juran
The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision. -- Robyn Davidson
One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to lookvertically upwards -- Oche Otorkpa
Find ways to decentralize. Move decision making authority down and out. Encourage a more entrepreneurial approach. -- Donald Rumsfeld
My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions. -- George W. Bush
Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake. -- Maya Angelou
A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest. -- Monica Crowley
I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving. -- Herbert A. Simon
It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision. -- Nathan Eldon Tanner
Her conclusion: You just have to follow your own heart when it comes to medical decision-making. -- Emily Matchar
Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making. -- Scott Stapp
There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data. -- Jerry Yang
Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. -- George Soros
I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general. -- Ronald Perelman
Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere. -- Robin Sharma
Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didnâ??t predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did. -- Cordelia Fine
I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it. -- Jeff Bridges
Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies. -- Robin Marantz Henig

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