Slow Decision Quotes

A question like the present should he disposed of without undue delay. But a State cannot he expected to move with the celerity of a private business man; it is enough if it proceeds, in the language of the English Chancery, with all deliberate speed.

The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

I belong to the just-wait-a-minute club.

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

Generally, I have lot of patience, and I won't take a decision immediately on anything. I will think twice, thrice; then only I take a decision.

The civil service are risk averse.

When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

Parties think slowly.

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

When you're having trouble making a decision you're making it too soon.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Sears had layers and layers of people it didn't need. It was very bureaucratic. It was slow to think. And there was an established way of thinking. If you poked your head up with a new thought, the system kind of turned against you. It was everything in the way of a dysfunctional big bureaucracy that you would expect.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.

I like to sit on things and digest them and then I'll figure out my next move, but I never said I was right for doing anything.

Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.

Do not believe hastily.

I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it.

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

I know. And that's what took me so long

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

If you analyze my career graph, you will see that I'm slow at choosing projects.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.