John Grierson Quotes

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Be decisive even when confused – especially when confused.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.

So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

I trust people to be human. Sometimes you do things that make amazing amounts of sense; sometimes you do things that don't make any sense whatsoever.

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

When in doubt, do it.

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

How long halt ye between two opinions?

Your power, which is already very great, you can increase more by peace than by war. For the outcome of war is uncertain. More often you see adversity rather than prosperity accompany it.

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?

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

I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.

My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.