Mark McKinnon Quotes

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.

You're kind of taught that the role of a business person is the decision making.

Ultimately all the options are ugly… These decisions are very, very difficult

Making tough decisions that may make someone unhappy is something to get good at doing.

When something becomes a business, 50% of your decisions are what you have to do and not what you want to do.

Sometimes you need to make difficult choices.

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

There is simply no way we are going to make progress on the enormous challenges we face without making hard choices. It's impossible.

Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision.

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.

Where great evils lie on all sides, it is very difficult to follow the best counsel.

It’s less important to have unanimity than it is making the right decisions and doing the right thing, even though at the outset it might be loathsome.

What comes into the Oval Office are not the good or easy decisions. The easy decisions are made elsewhere. The things that make it to the Oval are always the hard ones.

I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.

It's hard to be a leader when you have to make hard choices and when you have to do what's right, even though people are not going to like you for it.

Oftentimes the easy decision and comfortable decision is not the right one.

That's just what 'The 100' does. They like to put their characters in a position where no decision is the right one, you know? You have to kind of just hope that it works out.

The goal isn't just to make transactions: it's to make better decisions in the way you run your business. If that's not at the top of every executive's priorities, then they shouldn't be an executive.

Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.