Strategic Decisions Quotes

Should President Clinton have killed Osama bin Laden when he had the opportunity in 1990s? Should President Bush have sent the U.S. military into Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein in 2003? Should President Obama have withdrawn all troops from Iraq in 2011? Such questions provide no real insight into future considerations.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

The game is about making the right decisions.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

Political considerations can be taken into account only as long as they do not make demands that are militarily improper or impossible.

Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.

I will say I would leave many of the decisions of some of the things you mentioned to the generals, the admirals, the people on top, and we get some of the - the Congressmen just mentioned to me and I - I think it's true 100 percent, you get your top enlisted people in that and you have some discussions with some of these top enlisted people who know it better than probably anybody.

CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.

The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.

Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.

I'm happy I'm doing films at a slow pace rather than doing anything and everything.

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

You can't say that I am choosy. You can say that I work in few films at a time.

I think it's very, very important that in foreign policy and national security decision making, as in any other realm, that there be a range of diversity that reflects the full complexity of America. We should draw on those experiences to inform our decision making.

One of the things I learned in the military is sometimes you don't know what mistakes you make for a long time. But as you go through a campaign, there's lots of decision points you make, and you don't know whether those are gonna be the right decision points or not.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

It becomes important to do the right films, than do 10 films in a year. You may do it once, but it'll never happen again.

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.

The policy of the United States does not flow from transitory considerations.

Foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.

Being in charge sometimes means making people mad. Some days you have to overrule even the best advice, because you think it is not right.

There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.