506 Quotes About Decision-making

High EQ decision makers can leverage multifaceted thought processes in making sound judgments and improving the overall decision-making maturity.

People are like, ‘Oh, you can’t take humans out of the loop, I’m a human and I’m an awesome driver.’ And I’m like, no, man, you’re not an awesome driver. You’re a monkey, and monkeys suck at making decisions.

Making good engineering decisions is all about weighing all of the available inputs and making informed decisions about the trade-offs. Sometimes, those decisions are based on instinct or accepted best practice, but only after we have exhausted approaches that try to measure or estimate the true underlying costs.

Even if your customer is not an adult, always remember that they are way smarter than you think. Kids know exactly what they want, and they have the power of influencing their parents’ decisions.

But if it is crazy to turn down the 100 bets, the logic of Samuelson's argument is just reversed; you should not turn down one! Shlomo and I called this phenomenon "myopic loss aversion". The only way you can ever take 100 attractive bets is by first taking the first one, and it is only thinking about the bet in isolation that fools you into turning it down.

Life is about choices. The better you become at making good choices the better your life will be.

Decisions should not be taken out of pride or embarrassment, but out of pure strategy.

If something doesn't feel right to you, then it's probably not right for you

En general no se dice que una decisión se nos aparece, las personas son tan celosas de su identidad, por vaga que sea, y de su autoridad, por poca que tengan, que prefieren dar a entender que reflexionaron antes de dar el último paso, que ponderaron los pros y los contras, que sopesaron las posibilidades y las alternativas, y que, al cabo de un intenso trabajo mental, tomaron finalmente la decisión.