Nasser Hussain Quotes

It's the whole big picture that we have to look at to create an organization that wins over the long term. And to just shoot from the hip on a decision based on winning over a 10-game period. No, that doesn't make sense.

It is most difficult to deal with. There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

One of the things Goldman teaches you is, don't be the first guy through the door because you're going to get all the arrows.

We necessarily operate in an environment in which there's a great deal of uncertainty. In such an environment, it makes sense to use a risk-management approach to identify and avoid the big mistakes. That's one reason I favor a cautious approach.

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

Fear of decision-making is one thing I personally resist, and I'm trying to encourage others to resist as well.

People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

He who considers too much will perform little.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950.

I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision.

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.

I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up.

[Referring to Jimmy Carter:] Jimmy's basic problem is that he's super cautious. He looks before and after he leaps.

When the President is a moralist, he needs a process that will make up for the natural shortcomings of such a style—an inattention to second-step thinking, an allergy to detail, a tendency not to see the point of having dissenters, a habit of allowing certainty to override considerations of risk. It is the National Security Advisor’s responsibility to fill a President’s strategic gaps, not to exacerbate them.

Today, whenever I'm under pressure to make a decision on a transaction but I don't know what the right one is, I try desperately to postpone it. I'll insist on more information - on doing extra laps around the intellectual parking lot - before committing. I take the same approach with people, too.

I'm not good with decisions.

Decision-making is very scary for me.

I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.