Michael Ovitz Quotes

You need the right balance between data and gut feeling.

Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

Every GM will tell you it's an instinct. It's an instinct to be patient, to react, or act, or not to do anything at all. It just comes. What I can say is you must have a plan and a goal and a way to do things. At the end of the day, it's an instinct. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

I want to make smart choices.

Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.

I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

The best decisions are taken quickly and well. You can prepare yourself, have all aspects of the game thought through, but the one who shines on the pitch is the one with intuition.

You either back your instincts or you hold off - and you're more likely to back your instincts if you're confident.

My gut has never let me down.

Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.

I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.

You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.

I'm not the world's best philosopher. But I am one of the world's best strategists. I will put my strategic abilities against anybody on Earth.

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.