506 Quotes About Decision-making

When we allow ourselves to ignore a rational option in favor of an irrational one, or perhaps an unjustified one, it’s like eating junk food. It fills the need for making a decision but does so with no decision at all. Just like junk food, it satiates the need to act, but it requires no action at all.

The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational.

Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions of authority...[it is] quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.

Courage is making an unpopular decision and suffering through temporary discomfort because you know it will have the best long-term results.

Time creates Let time work at your projects.

Sometimes, but not often, I am thoroughly convinced that the decision I have made is the right one, even though it differs from the others, and I will exercise my authority to approve or reject a decision against their wishes. In most cases, though, if we can’t agree on something, a better idea is to table the decision rather than to exercise the power.

Small decisions made over times make big impacts.

If you just decide – boom – it will happen!

It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.