Dale Carnegie Quotes

The Ultimate decision, the fastest decision there is, is ACTION!

Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

If you wait until you have all the facts, then it will be too late..

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

He does not however postpone making decisions.

When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

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

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

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.

Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.

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

The art of managing and leading comes down to a simple thing. Determining and facing reality about people, situations, products, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality. Think how many times we have procrastinated, hoped it would get better. Most of the mistakes you've made have been through not being willing to face into it, straight in the mirror that reality you find, then taking action on it. That's all managing is, defining and acting. Not hoping, not waiting fro the next plan. Not rethinking it. Getting on with it. Doing it. Defining and doing it.

If you have not done so yet, decide to decide.

Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.

Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.

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.

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side.

Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.