Tom Watson Quotes

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

Today, whenever I'm under pressure to make a decision on a transaction but I don't know what the right one is, I try desperately to postpone it. I'll insist on more information - on doing extra laps around the intellectual parking lot - before committing. I take the same approach with people, too.

I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.

Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.

He who considers too much will perform little.

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.

I'm the kind of person who can paralyze myself very easily by over-thinking decisions.

I think sometimes when things have too much time to develop you overthink it and you start making changes that aren't necessary.

If you overthink things, you end up doing things without the right reasons in mind.

Fear of decision-making is one thing I personally resist, and I'm trying to encourage others to resist as well.

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

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.

Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

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

The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.