Jim Barksdale Quotes

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

Good policy is grounded in a robust set of facts and data.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

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.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

You can’t have opinions unless you have information.

You can't make evidence-based policy decisions without evidence.

To be honest, more than what I prepare, it's the directors who do the bulk of the work, researching, collecting data and all that. I like to see myself as a processor: they feed me with the data, I give the output.

Every day we go over data and use science and data to drive policy and decision-making.

I'm a fact-based leader.

I will never speculate on data. I always need to see data.

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

You have to be willing to have the decision-making follow the data.

I always make decisions with the facts so I would look to make an early decision with the benefit of the facts.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are.

Data really powers everything that we do.

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.