Decision Risk Quotes

With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.

The pressure of time, is the overwhelming challenge for policymakers who must act on assessments that cannot be proved at the time and whose mistakes are irretrievable.

A President in a ... crisis makes, say, 10 bets a day. Maybe I made the wrong choice three times.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualties can't be allowed to affect decisions, unless it's evident casualties will be prohibitively heavy. There may be no safe way to write this.

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it's still your fault if they were wrong!

Living involves making bold choices. You can't always know how they're going to turn out, and you can always play that game of wondering what might have been if you had made another decision.

All managers make decisions, and sometimes they are right, and sometimes people say they are wrong.