Daniel Kahneman Quotes

Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up

He's not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says 'well let me think about it.'

Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness.

If you temporize, you are lost.

I was disappointed a little in Stevenson because I did think he couldn't make up his mind. It's the feeling I always had. Perhaps all of us have self-doubt, and we should have, and most of us do, but it doesn't show. It doesn't show as much as it did in Adlai; he seemed to do it in public.

The electorate will forgive you even for decisions that they do not agree with, but they will not forgive you for not deciding.

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

The mark of a bad leader is not to make the wrong decision. It is to make no decision at all.

Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

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

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has rendered them incapable of clear decisions.

Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

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

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

Donald Trump is as decisive as anybody I've ever met. I just don't see him running around asking various people in his inner circle, "What do you think I ought to do here?" I think he knows what he wants to do, and he seeks support for it or talks to people that oppose him and he may listen to them. But I don't think he's indecisive at all.

Another idea that is changing is that the leader must be one who can make quick decisions. The leader to-day is often one who thinks out his decisions very slowly.

Leadership isn't making all the decisions. It is making sure the right decisions are made.

You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.