John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.

Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.

Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

One person making a wrong decision affects the whole country.

In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.

What I find them struggling most isn't with one of the twelve [things from daily list]; I find them struggling with what decisions to make.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.

Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.

Do something today you've been afraid to do. A decision based on fear is the wrong decision.

I'm newly widowed, so I've gone from having a life partner, and having another brain to make decisions with, to doing it all on my own and questioning what I'm doing. I have to be a calmer person, because my anger can look pretty terrifying to a young person.

But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.

There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones.