Chester Bowles Quotes

The intelligence community is intended to base its intelligence estimates on facts and analysis—not philosophy and conviction.

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

No disrespect, but I don't make decisions based on opinions.

Intelligence is to provide the facts to us. The facts will usually take you to the truth. And then, when we get the truth, we have got to make the decisions and do what's best for this country.

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

Working people really amaze me. When you give them all the facts, they make the right decision every single time.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

Finally, you're right about one point, your entire way of thinking is predicted by what you're immersed in so you know you won't make a bad decision. You can make a bad decision but it's still in the good sphere normally if you work well. You're prepared to face a crew who wants to know everything and poses a hundred questions a minute, because you know you have good reflexes and can respond very quickly.

What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions.

Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

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.

I think what you expect of every candidate and ultimately of a president is to listen to the facts and to deal with things in a way that's smart and direct. I'm confident that's exactly what President [Donald] Trump will do.

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

Science is the only true guide in life.

Decision making is the specific executive task.

Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.

I always make decisions with the facts so I would look to make an early decision with the benefit of the facts.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue.

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

We have to make the right decisions.