Decision Quotes - Page 42

To me, the "tape" is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape!

God wants His people well, but it is up to us to make the decision to walk in health.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.

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

Defeat only happens when you make the decision to stop trying. Because determination works. Steady forward motion, even if it's just a step per week, gets you there. So keep moving, even if it's only a little some weeks.

There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After...I knew there would be no turning back if I designated this moment as my own Prime Meridian from which everything else would be measured.

Decisions are more apt to be accepted when you've listened to suggestions first. I wanted them to see the reason behind what I asked of them, not to do things just because I said so.

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!

I do know that if you can name certain things and understand them, it allows you to make better choices. Unfortunately, there's so much misinformation that towers over a person's head, it's really difficult to make the right decisions. Consequently, we just go along because it's way too hard to sift through the information.

It's hope as a decision that makes change possible.

Good question to ask yourself: How would the person I would like to be do what I'm about to do?

Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

A question I would like to present to the world is: Where is the love? And what are we doing? Who's making the decisions that are putting us in the predicaments that we are in, with all of these people losing their lives around the world in so many different ways?

It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.

Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.

The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

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

A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government is the ultimate arbiter, for the inhabitants of a given territory, regarding what is just and what is not, and it can determine unilaterally, i.e., without requiring the consent of those seeking justice or arbitration, the price that justice-seekers must pay to the government for providing this service.

Tony Blair made decisions on what he thought was best for the people of Great Britain, and I made decisions on what I thought was best for Americans. And I really don't view our relationship as one of quid pro quo. I view our relationship as one of strong allies and friends working together for the common good.

Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.