James D. Watson Quotes

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up

Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good is best when soonest wrought,Linger'd labours come to nought.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!

If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

Make certain decisions only once.

One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.

I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

Decisiveness is the best way to get things done.

Better reap two days too soon than one day too late

Delay is not our friend. Delay is our enemy.

I hate sitting around labouring over things. I love just getting into it.

What I always keep in mind is that we'll take action on things that need to be done, promptly and without hesitation.

When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions.