Daniel Kahneman Quotes

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

Sometimes the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So I generally try to do what I think is right. And sometimes I make mistakes.

Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith.

In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.

Never do today what intuition says to do tomorrow.

There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.

The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.

I've always been able to make erroneous decisions very quickly.

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

Many times, my intuition wins. I trust my intuition a lot. A lot.

Your gut is always right.

Making decisions quickly isn't for everyone, and I've had my disasters, but overall, it works for me.

People usually think with their brain or go with their heart, but a good place to start is if you have a gut feeling.

Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.

There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

Whenever we need to make a very important decision it is best to trust our instincts, because reason usually tries to remove us from our dream, saying that the time is not yet right. Reason is afraid of defeat, but intuition enjoys life and its challenges.

To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory.

I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.

As intuition grows, the need to make problems and see complications starts to dwindle.

I think all decision making is very instinctive, in the end.

I think there has to be a recognition that, you know, there's so much at stake now, I mean, the business has changed so much and decisions are made so quickly, in nano seconds basically.

Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.