Decision Quotes

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

Generally you should act somewhere between P40 and P70, as I call it. Sometime after you have obtained 40 percent of all the information you are liable to get, start thinking in terms of making a decision. When you have about 70 percent of all the information, you probably ought to decide, because you may lose an opportunity in losing time.

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.

Focusing is all about saying no

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Do it now. Not next week. Not tomorrow. Not later this afternoon. Now.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Focusing is about saying No.

The die is now cast. The colonies must either submit or triumph.

When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.

Am I then, the Grand Prince, not free to dispose of my sons and my throne? I shall give it to whom I please.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

I finally came to the decision that I couldn't do it like that anymore. So I surrendered to that. I did (the Sabbath reunion tour) without anything - cigarettes, tobacco, dope, anything. And I had so much more fun without it.

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Remember, it's not conditions but decisions that determine our lives.