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If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry. -- Carly Fiorina
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss. -- Charles Duhigg
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. -- Scott Adams
In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science. -- David Perlmutter
Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will. -- David Blunkett
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
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. -- Peter Singer
And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs. -- Kevin Kelly
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure. -- John C. Maxwell
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us. -- Mike Johanns
People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change. -- William Hague
Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss. -- Dylan Moran
To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position. -- Noam Chomsky
If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements. -- Dana Rohrabacher
It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think. -- Noreena Hertz
Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes. -- Barry Ritholtz
There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid. -- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part. -- Margaret Chan
As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making. -- Ursula Burns
Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions. -- John Thune
When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about. -- Taylor Swift
Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game? -- Naveen Jain
We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower. -- Gretchen Rubin
What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions. -- Jim Yong Kim
It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits. -- Iain Duncan Smith
All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise. -- Tony Robbins
Design is nothing if not decision making. -- Henry Petroski
Decision making is the specific executive task. -- Peter Drucker
Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making. -- Emily Oster
Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making. -- Michael Eisner
Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude. -- Jim Leach
Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making. -- Peter Diamandis
I'm scared of people with power making the decision. -- Ray Dalio
The sweetest part is acting after making a decision. -- Emily Saliers
Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war. -- Jim Rohn
Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait. -- Mark Millar
The hard part is implementing the decision, not making it. -- Guy Kawasaki
Design is a career where you learn creative decision making. -- Biz Stone
Courage and confidence are what decision making is all about. -- Mike Krzyzewski
People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy. -- Stan Shih
Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making. -- Simon Sinek
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
Using the 'military decision-making process' is extremely valuable when making policy decisions. -- Joe Heck
Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making -- Jack Dangermond
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making. -- M. Russell Ballard
Whenever it comes to decision making, Remember the part about having confidence. -- Auliq Ice
The difficulty is not making a decision, it's living with the consequences. -- Micah Baldwin
So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work. -- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Making a decision to sell is the most difficult thing we do. -- Walter Schloss
When you're having trouble making a decision you're making it too soon. -- Esther Hicks
You have to be willing to have the decision-making follow the data. -- Ted Cruz
I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision. -- Katie Leung
It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making. -- Cory Doctorow
Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making. -- Frans de Waal
Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum. -- Manmohan Singh
When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on". -- Martha Beck
The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making. -- Geoff Mulgan
You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever. -- Joan Didion
You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies. -- Steve Odland
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
A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision. -- Reggie Watts
When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. -- Tony Robbins
If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils. -- Rajneesh
I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are. -- Hillary Clinton
Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process. -- Gyorgy Konrad
Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision. -- Robin Sharma
Doing nothing is also an action; not making a decision is making a decision. -- Bohdi Sanders
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
Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content. -- Anthony Stafford Beer
Without the possibility of making mistakes, we wouldn't need to bother about making a decision. -- Daniel Englisch
This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making. -- Steve Ballmer
If you're going to decide to run a data-driven campaign, decision-making has to follow it. -- Ted Cruz
My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people. -- Laurie Anderson
Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action. -- Joseph M. Juran
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making. -- Andrew Young
True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. -- John Wayne
The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same. -- Lysa TerKeurst
I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving. -- Herbert A. Simon
Find ways to decentralize. Move decision making authority down and out. Encourage a more entrepreneurial approach. -- Donald Rumsfeld
The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision. -- Robyn Davidson
A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest. -- Monica Crowley
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
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
One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to lookvertically upwards -- Oche Otorkpa
Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. -- George Soros
There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data. -- Jerry Yang
There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people. -- Elizabeth Warren
I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general. -- Ronald Perelman
Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies. -- Robin Marantz Henig
Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to acutally live take a lot of courage. -- Emily Haines
I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it. -- Jeff Bridges
In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it. -- Iwan Bloch
Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere. -- Robin Sharma
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Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didnâ??t predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did. -- Cordelia Fine
Make the basic shot-making decision early, clearly and firmly, and then ritualize all the necessary acts of preparation. -- Sam Snead
It's very important, who has the most delegates. The superdelegates should not be the ones making the decision. -- Linda Chavez-Thompson
You're an infinite soul, a spark of Consciousness, and your perception is a creative decision you're continuously making. -- Yol Swan
Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included. -- Tom Daschle
Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making. -- Marvin Bower
Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking. -- Daniel Kahneman
Just a recognition of the reality of decision-making and the state of play in the government of Israel. -- Richard Boucher
A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making. -- Jacques Bertin
It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life. -- Paulo Coelho
I would give Alex back control so she could protect herself instead of making the decision for her. -- Jennifer L. Armentrout
Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences. -- F. David Mathews
Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism. -- Adam Fletcher
Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility. -- Tony Robbins
Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making. -- Jack Welch

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