Decision Making Quotes

Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader. Don’t fall victim to what I call the ‘ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.’ You must be willing to fire. George S Patton

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property. Jerry Gillies

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. Napoleon Bonaparte

If someone tells you he is going to make ‘a realistic decision,’ you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad. Mary McCarthy

Whenever I make a bum decision, I just go out and make another. Harry Truman

I’ve learned one thing in politics. You don’t make a decision until you have to. Margaret Thatcher