Bidzina Ivanishvili Quotes

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

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

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

I want the reader to be in the shoes of everyday people who are facing incredible dangers and wonder if they would make the same choices.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic. For me, danger might be getting out from the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more of my own, even though I don't know what- or who- awaits me.

Take one, and you cannot take the other. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?

Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Do right. Fear Nothing.

I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

One of the things I preach to all my staff is never be frightened to make a decision.

I get a lot of death threats. But the way I look at it, I feel I have a moral obligation to do the best I can to make the country better for everybody, and that threatens certain people because they're going to have much less power. I want the power to go back to people making decisions over their own lives rather than some experts making it.

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision.

We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it?

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.