Natalia Dyer Quotes

As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making - I don't like knee jerk decisions - but I'm not afraid to make decisions.

I'm pretty good at thinking about everything - all of my consequences - before I make a decision, and I think about everything that's going to happen because of that decision. I'm a Libra, and I'm very strategic.

I want to make smart choices.

I'm slow to make a decision. I need to think things over for a long time, to weigh the pros and cons, to look at issues 10, 20, or 30 times. But when that's done, I'm quick to act.

Every decision you make in life, not just on the sporting field - a lot of time and energy goes into it. You think things through before you make decisions and you always think the decision you make at the time is going to be the right one.

Whenever a question is of some importance, it should not be decided on the day when it is submitted to you. Whenever it is not an urgent one, I make it a rule not to let any question be forced upon my immediate decision; … And even when in my mind I am disposed to accede, still I always keep the papers with me some little time before I return them.

Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people.

I don't believe that you can make decisions on anything without having all of the details.

Throughout his remarkable business and government career, Robert Rubin, now 65, has both worked exhaustively at reaching well-founded conclusions and rejected the idea that anything - and he means anything - can be a 'provable certainty.'

In exceptional boardrooms, the intellectual rigor generated by a challenging question is both an accepted norm and a precursor to reaching informed decisions. This is the crucial edge that sets apart boards that lead from boards that follow.

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

I don't try to make any decision of the impulse of my heart. I think things through and go from there.

Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't.

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

Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.

I don't make a decision till I see fit. That's why I'm so effective. My mind isn't predetermined.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

You can't make good decisions without knowing the business.

Defensively, I could be a lot better; my decision-making at times can be a bit poor.

When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

As a chess player I learn to adapt to new situations and always try to make the best move without looking back or asking why and how I ended up in a situation I ended up in.

Those who are close to me know that I am a person who likes to analyse everything before making a decision.

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

Reasons come first. Answers come second