Robert K. Greenleaf Quotes

Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

A weak point of mine was maybe little resolve in governing and making decisions.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.

You've got to stop going back and forth. You've got to make up your mind.

Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

When in doubt, stand still.

Second-guess [myself]? Yes, I do. I question everything I do every step of the way. Once I make the decision I'm almost blinded by believing in it, and then I usually hate everything I've done.

Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight.

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.

Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.

It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.

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.

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

You have to make a decision, what you want to do in life, ... Your deal can be, you can leave tomorrow. Soon as you leave, you will be forgotten.

you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe.

What I find them struggling most isn't with one of the twelve [things from daily list]; I find them struggling with what decisions to make.