Early Decisions Quotes

I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

In the book [Today Matters] I talk about successful people make important decisions early in their life, and then they manage those decisions the rest of their life.

With hindsight, if you want to play for Real Madrid, sacrifices need to be made but I was too young to understand. There are things I shouldn't have said or done. It was early in my career, maybe too early. I didn't know it was the only Champions League I'd win, for example.

The only spoof I think is the title, which was just we thought of very early on and it kind of stuck.

I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.

The first years in office are necessarily important in the life of a young man.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

So many of the major decisions that affect the entire future of your enterprise happen during its first year in business. In fact, most don't make it because they don't know how to get the resources they need to survive.

Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen pitfalls down the road. Noam Wasserman uses vivid anecdotes and deep research to expertly outline the key early choices that define a startup, making The Founder's Dilemmas an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.

Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.

Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often.

The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.