Robert McNamara Quotes

Withholding a decision is a decision.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.

Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Not deciding is a decision. People don't realize that not making a decision is a decision in itself.

Inaction counted as a choice.

If you have not done so yet, decide to decide.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Not to decide is to decide.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

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.

In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more difficult decisions every day, seems to me almost to run counter to love. To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love.

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.

If not me- who?, If not now- when?

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

The time to hesitate is through.

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

If you don't make a decision about how you are going to live, then you have already made a decision, haven't you?

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.