130 Decision Making Process Quotes

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Famous Decision Making Process Quotes

You cannot make progress without making decisions. — Jim Rohn

The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision. — Scott Mcnealy

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. - Peter Drucker

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. — Peter Drucker

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision. — Bernhard Langer

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. — Jose Ortega y Gasset

At crucial junctures, every individual makes decisions and ... every decision is individual. — Raul Hilberg

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything. — Ulysses S. Grant

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. — Sigmund Freud

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. — Scott Adams

The one word that makes a good manager -- decisiveness. — Lee Iacocca

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness. — Lee Iacocca

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. — Paul Tillich

Feeling stuck or indecisive? Listen to your intuition and make a decision — Doreen Virtue

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. — Harry S Truman

Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others. — Abraham Zaleznik

Short Decision Making Process Quotes

  • Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. — Sophocles
  • The best decisions are often made with data and evidence, not just gut feelings. — Jim Simons
  • The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. — Alice Waters
  • In your decision-making and in making your decisions right, you are always alone. — Mahatria Ra
  • Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny. — Russell M. Nelson
  • Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you. — Peter Drucker
  • Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. — George S. Patton
  • A happy, calm, and peaceful person will make better decisions. — Naval Ravikant
  • I don't take right decisions, I take decisions and make them right — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  • Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions. — Mark Twain
Decision making process quote Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.

Decision To Make Quotes

No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people. — Julius Nyerere

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. — Voltaire

To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job! — Mary Mcleod Bethune

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. — Thomas Sowell

What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions. — Abdul Kalam

Decision making process quote How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. — Charles R. Swindoll

When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be much more supportive and happier with family life. Also when allowed to help make rules, they will follow them much closer than if rules are forced on them. All these add up to a happier home for all. — Sayings

The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge. — Howard Thurman

After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone. — Ignatius of Loyola

Business Decisions Quotes

I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right. — Ratan Tata

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. — Peter Drucker

The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it. — Snoop Dogg

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair. - George S. Patton

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair. — George S. Patton

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. — James C. Collins

Among the social networks, LinkedIn can be one of the most useful when it comes to cultivating critical, lucrative business opportunities, since it has a high concentration of business decision-makers. — Lewis Howes

Decision making process quote Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.

Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to a whole new place. — Jensen Huang

The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress — Irving Janis

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. — Henry Kravis

Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own instincts. — Sergio Bambaren

Decisions Made Quotes

Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections. — Julius Nyerere

It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield. — Attila the Hun

I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time. — Chance the Rapper

Decision making process quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today? — Albert Camus

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is. — B. F. Skinner

When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own. — Colin Powell

Decision making process quote Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time. — Bo Schembechler

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. — Hunter S. Thompson

My own experience is that the best outcomes are reached when opposing viewpoints are clearly and strongly presented before decisions are made. — Jerome Powell

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. — Agnes De Mille

Make The Right Decision Quotes

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The worst thing you can do is nothing. - Terry Pratchett

The worst thing you can do is nothing. — Terry Pratchett

While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation. — Narendra Modi

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions. - Gary Vaynerchuk

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions. — Gary Vaynerchuk

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision. — Alexander Hamilton

We define ourselves far too often by our past failures. That’s not you. You are this person right now. You’re the person who has learned from those failures. Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired. — Joe Rogan

Decision making process quote The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.
The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing. — Temple Grandin

Our companies communities and countries don’t necessarily suffer from a shortage of novel ideas. They’re constrained by a shortage of people who excel at choosing the right novel ideas. — Adam Grant

A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. — Raymond A. Spruance

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit. — William Pollard

Making The Right Decision Quotes

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right. — Theodore Hesburgh

If you support Ukraine joining NATO then you support the US fighting a hot war with Russia right now. I don’t care what your reasoning is. If you support that, you are a dangerously insane person who should never be allowed to make these decisions. — Dave Smith

A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. — Raymond Spruance

Decision making process quote A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions. — Ronald Fisher

If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan — Bill Delahunt

You can do anything you decide to do. — Amelia Earhart

Decision making process quote It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.
It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.

Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right. — Derrick Bell

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else. — Paul Arden

I wont ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason. — Derrick Rose

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely. — Dan Ariely

Right Decision Quotes

I don't believe in taking right decisions. - Ratan Tata

I don't believe in taking right decisions. — Ratan Tata

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. — Theodore Roosevelt

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism. — Benazir Bhutto

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face. — Napoleon Hill

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late. - Lee Iacocca

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late. — Lee Iacocca

I felt bad, yet I knew I’d made the right choice. I was following my heart. — Rich Roll

America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. — Mother Teresa

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision. — Hillary Clinton

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation. — David Horowitz

I think that everyone has an equal right to play and I think we've been supportive of that. With the Olympics and the controversy around that I think those decisions and those laws aren't necessarily something that I agree with personally ... their laws and their views. — Sidney Crosby

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More Decision Making Process Quotes

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation. — Charles Rangel

Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests. — Jenny Shipley

The biggest thing I learned from being in the special forces is the decision-making process and also the willingness not to give up. You need to have a certain mindset. I call it a positive mindset. — Nirmal Purja

Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a "foregone conclusion." Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes. — Diane F. Halpern

Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions. — Judith M Bardwick

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something. — Leo Buscaglia

Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours. — Ban Ki-moon

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects. — Paulo Freire

We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part. — Margaret Chan

Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more likely to say that statistics is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty. — Herman Chernoff

The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after. — Terrence Deal

The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after. — Bill Vaughan

Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can afford to make a purchase - does their income safely cover their mortgage payment? Then they determine whether owning is a better financial choice than renting - are the costs of owning a home lower than the cost of renting it? — Mark Zandi

I grew up always admiring business owners. I was always interested in knowing who pulled what strings. I've always been in love with the decision making process, not just the product. — Dom Kennedy

Pause and remember - Life is a process of surrendering. Make the decision to let go of what no longer serves you or makes you feel good. Know that you are worth more and something better will arrive once you create the space. — Jennifer Young

People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment. — Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves. — Muhammad Yunus

But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events. — Manuel De Landa

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work. — Chuck Close

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process. — Ronald Reagan

We are often in society told to make decisions in one of two ways. We're either told "Use your gut, just go with how you feel about it and let that guide you," or we're told to use reason - some very deliberative methodical process of pros and cons and really thinking it through. — Sheena Iyengar

One of the big parts of my decision-making process is knowing that when you're signing up for something, you're signing up for multiple seasons, should it be successful, and in theory, you want it to be successful, but you also want to be doing something that you're enjoying. — Tom Ellis

Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept. — Mary Pipher

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense. — Joyce Meyer

Developing an explicit decision-making process upfront for how you will make that decision will help alleviate conflict and gridlock when you actually need to decide. — David Livermore

If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements. — Dana Rohrabacher

It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part decision making process, it's not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs. It's startling how many people make that assumption. — Lauren Mayberry

Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process. — Gyorgy Konrad

Making one brilliant decision and a whole bunch of mediocre ones isn't as good as making a whole bunch of generally smart decisions throughout the whole process. — John Carmack

I do not think being a coordinator is a requirement, but it does give you some advantages. You get used to working with half the team and you go through the game-planning and decision-making processes. — Tony Dungy

At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie. — Adam Leipzig

The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are limited. We create decisive moments by devoting our time and attention to specific things. This is the greatest gift we can give anyone or anything - pieces of our life. — John Paul Caponigro

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Cheshvan starts tonight," Rixon said, "What are you doing arsing around in a graveyard?" "Thinking." "Thinking?" "A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision. — Becca Fitzpatrick

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about. — Taylor Swift

Normally I do all my own post work. It's not that I do it better than anyone else, I just do it my way. I make decisions. People who print at labs are probably far better printers, but they won't make my decisions mid-process. I don't want to be out of the loop. I want to be a photographer and do all of it. — Gregory Heisler

A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making. — Jacques Bertin

I can tell from the tone of his voice and the thought processes in getting to where he's at that there's no point in talking to him further. He wanted to make that decision independent of all other factors and we respect that. [on Damien Martyn retiring — Ian Chappell

It also has to do with how you look and how you sound. If you look like a mean SOB who's putting the other person down, that's different than if you're inquiring about the process they go through to make a decision on behalf of the public. — Roger Ailes

If we want to identify the great success of American research universities, and that success goes far beyond Harvard, we have to come back to the question of governance. Excellence requires a firewall between trusteeship, or government ministries, and the academic decision-making process. This American concept of shared governance wherein the faculty are engaged in running the university as part of a collaboration with the other stakeholders. — Henry Rosovsky

Using the ‘military decision-making process’ is extremely valuable when making policy decisions. — Joe Heck

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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