Key Decisions Quotes

What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you.

When you're President you have to make a lot of tough decisions. You have to keep lining them up and making them.

Our hiring is almost completely built around just going through someone's life story, and we look for moments when they had to make important decisions, and we go deep on those.

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life.

The most difficult issues—the toughest decisions—are the ones that invariably end up on the President’s desk.

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.

Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has been the critical decisive vote on many issues that go to the heart of who we are as a nation.

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.

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

The best way to experience the power of fundamental choices is to make them.

You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.

Sometimes the things you decide not to do are actually the biggest things to do in your career.

What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power; that the men of the circles composing this elite, severally and collectively, now make such key decisions as are made; and that, given the enlargement and the centralization of the means of power now available, the decisions that they make and fail to make carry more consequences for more people than has ever been the case in the world history of mankind

In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

So if the meaning of the Trump brand is being the ultimate boss who has the power because he's so rich, the way you undermine that brand is by making him look like a puppet, and by showing that while he's playing gold and admiring his properties, it's actually other people making the key decisions and he doesn't really know what's going on.

There are times in your life where you need to make vital choices.

The chairman is the man who manages everything and, in the end, takes all the decisions. Always, for the fans, it's important to hear him.