Better Decisions Quotes

#1. Resilience, by its nature, energizes and motivates you and the people around you. Having this internal balance improves your ability to think more clearly, problem solve and make better decisions.

Cynthia Howard

#2. Clarify your vision and you will make better decisions about people, processes, finances, strategies, and customers.

Gino Wickman

#3. If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.

John Abrams

#4. When you're down on yourself, and when you are hunkering down and pulling back, you're not going to make any better decisions than when you were aggressively, belligerently putting yourself forward.

Hillary Clinton

#5. The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do,

Will.i.am

#6. One thing I have learned since coming to Tosu City is that age does not guarantee better decisions or stronger leadership. The ability to put aside personal agendas and decide what is best for the whole does.

Joelle Charbonneau

#7. People change as they get older ... grow wiser, make better decisions ... i am very old,Laurel. Anyone who lives as long as I have can't help but collect regrets along the way ... things they did in the past ... things they wish they'd done differently.

Kate Morton

#8. For a long time I wasn't happy, but that had nothing to do with Beyonce. That had to do with me trying to get my life in order and make better decisions for myself. I'm seeing all these wonderful things happen for her, and I am happy for her. But I want a path. I want things to pop off for me, too.

Kelly Rowland

#9. I believe that peace is one of the key reasons we need to take time to reflect. We make far better decisions when we are in a peaceful state.

Laura Lane

#10. We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.

Adrian Grenier

#11. Life is a learning process.
Learn from your mistakes.
The lessons should motivates you to make better decisions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Second chances, miracles, angels, faith and religion all promise us a way of doing things better to smooth over the regrets and hope we make better decisions in the future. We all want to become better than who we are now, and we're all continuing to know ourselves better.

Laura San Giacomo

#13. The better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get

Brian Tracy

#14. I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.

Camilo Villegas

#15. I need to kind of get a job that's going to take me to, like, Hawaii or Rio or something, right? Maybe I need to make better decisions with that.

Richard Madden

#16. I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.

Christine Lagarde

#17. Governments should want and even crave the best possible scientific advice. With reliable knowledge come better decisions, fewer mistakes and more results achieved for each pound spent.

Geoff Mulgan

#18. I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

Ben Carson

#19. God wants us to constantly be increasing, to be rising to new heights. He wants to increase you in His wisdom and help you to make better decisions. God wants to increase you financially, by giving you promotions, fresh ideas, and creativity.

Joel Osteen

#20. I'm going to make mistakes, I just have to be able to learn from them as quickly as possible. To learn faster, I watch film of myself and other good point guards, and then breaking down my mistakes and really analyzing them and seeing where I could have made better decisions.

Jeremy Lin

#21. I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#22. Struggles put you in a position to make better decisions. You'll survive and should take the lessons learned especially in order to move forward in life. It may have been raining in your life for a moment, but the sun will shine again

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#23. Executives are waking up to realize that they can do a lot better, save money, make better decisions if they optimize and start thinking geographically and have a location strategy.

Jack Dangermond

#24. It's helped my outlook, how I interact with people. It's made me more conscious. It's helped me be able to focus, make better decisions, think on my feet. I don't know what I'd do without it. It's my sanctuary.

Andie MacDowell

#25. Knowing your genetic health risks will help you make better decisions.

Anne Wojcicki

#26. Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered.

Thomas Sowell

#27. The more you enhance your ability to meditate, the better you will be able to make better decisions and create better harmony either within yourself, at home or at work.

Vishwas Chavan

#28. Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.

Tyler Cowen

#29. I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

Harriet Harman

#30. The thorniest business problems will surface at the board meetings, and the different, sharp opinions help to better explore the poles of the arguments to make better decisions.

Scott Weiss

#31. If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions.

Spencer W. Kimball

#32. When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.

Carlo Ratti

#33. Recognizing our shortcomings is a crucial first step on the path to making better decisions, creating better societies, and fixing our institutions.

Dan Ariely

#34. As we wisely gain knowledge through the everyday stuff, and grapple with the development of our discernment through everyday stuff, we'll use what we have to our advantage in making better decisions. (41)

Lysa TerKeurst

#35. And just as in life, if a man imagines himself on his deathbed and then works back through the years of his life, he will make better decisions along the way, knowing the end. Or at the very least, he"ll spend his time more wisely.

Adriana Trigiani

#36. By keeping the truly important things front and center, we often get the perspective we need to make better decisions.

Michael Hyatt

#37. Washington politicians think that government can make better decisions than you and me. But we know better. We know it's smaller, less intrusive government that will lead to real economic prosperity. We know it's business-friendly policies, not more red tape, that will create real growth.

Brad Wenstrup

#38. People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.

Brian Tracy

#39. Because I'm thinking in a broader way, I feel like I am able to make better decisions.

Takafumi Horie

#40. Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.

Warren G. Bennis

#41. With the right information at our fingertips, we can always make better decisions. That is one of the reasons I'm working with Tom's of Maine, in particular. For decades they've provided information about ingredients, their purpose and source.

Sophie Heyman Uliano

#42. if all you have to offer are criticisms on the people making the decisions, without being able to offer any better decisions yourself, then I suggest you reserve your judgement.

Luke Smitherd

#43. The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.

David Sheff

#44. We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

Dan Ariely

#45. I really like the mission at SurveyMonkey, which is, we help people make better decisions. It's just a great thing.

Dave Goldberg

#46. Effective discipline means that we're not only stopping a bad behavior or promoting a good one, but also teaching skills and nurturing the connections in our children's brains that will help them make better decisions and handle themselves well in the future.

Daniel J. Siegel

#47. When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.

Dan Rosensweig

#48. The paradox of learning how to make better decisions is that it requires developing a comfort with doubt. There

Charles Duhigg

#49. The research shows that groups of friends who allow members to disagree and still be friends are more likely to come to better decisions. So the next time you are in a group of people trying to reach consensus, be the asshole. Every group needs one, and it might as well be you.

David McRaney

#50. ... that your are the prime driver of your life. The world is malleable enough to be shaped by you. To lead a better life you just have to work harder, or use more willpower, or make better decisions.

David Brooks

#51. If you accept that human beings are difficult to change, and embrace (rather than curse) the uniqueness that everyone brings to the table, you'll navigate the world with more bliss and effectiveness. And make better decisions, too.

Seth

#52. What she wanted was really two things: to be elsewhere, and to be somebody else. Or at least a version of herself that had made better decisions, that had thought more clearly.

J. Robert Lennon

#53. Having more data does not always give you the power to make better decisions.

Jeffrey Fry

#54. There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions.

Theodore Dalrymple

#55. Your parents will die before you do, so you'd better make your own life decisions. Your own choices are always good if you know yourself - especially in art, because whenever you do something new, everyone will be against you.

Yoshitaka Amano

#56. Calm - indeed the calmest - reflection might be better than the most confused decisions

Franz Kafka

#57. There's something up ahead,' I said. 'Something really bad.' 'So of course we're heading straight for it,' said Penny. 'At some point, we're going to have to sit down and have a serious talk about making better lifestyle decisions.

Simon R. Green

#58. As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

Samuel Wilson

#59. By mindfully deciding how to act in line with my values instead of mindlessly applying my rules, I was better able to make the decisions that supported my happiness.

Gretchen Rubin

#60. We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.

Christine Gregoire

#61. In the darkness time, let your passion and spirit lead you to make a better decision.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#62. bluntly, a transfer of power could hardly have occurred at a better time: there were no important decisions to be made; there was nothing of consequence for the new President to consider for the next couple of days.

Jim Bishop

#63. The average man is both better informed and less corruptible in the decisions he makes as a consumer than as a voter at political elections.

Ludwig Von Mises

#64. People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.

Sharon Salzberg

#65. It takes ten good decisions to make up for one disastrous one. This is why it is better not to make nine good decisions than to make one bad one - which is what happens most of the time.

Neel Burton

#66. Democracy can tie your hands in a rock 'n' roll band, you know? It can be a great thing, but if you've got a certain amount of vision and you write a lot of songs, it's sometimes better to have your own band and make your own decisions.

Jason Isbell

#67. I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

LeBron James

#68. The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen.

Tony Goldwyn

#69. Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.

Adolph Malan

#70. Without a good understanding of history how can we make informed and therefore good and sensible decisions about current issues? The future then can only be made better by knowledge of the past.

Keith Tonkin

#71. And I do get it; some decisions are irreversible. But like I've said, sometimes it's the irreversible ones that help a person get to know herself a little better. It's the consequences that matter. It's the fact that there are no do-overs that makes life matter at all.

Hannah Pittard

#72. Positive thinking is no longer for drifters, dreamers and the perpetually naive. People who think positively see more opportunities, perform better, take more often correct and sound decisions, have more self-confidence, maintain better relations and have more trust placed in them

Herman Van Rompuy

#73. Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

Dennis E. Adonis

#74. Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way ... We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.

Malcolm Gladwell

#75. Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.

Timothy Noah

#76. if you were more unwilling to put up with negative emotion, your lives would go a whole lot better for you. You have trained yourselves to be willing to endure misalignment. And then you make decisions without the clarity that you're talking about.

Wayne W. Dyer

#77. In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of synods, which are often hasty and injudicious

Joseph Priestley

#78. We can all make the world a better place through the moment-to-moment decisions we make as we interact with people.

Morton Shaevitz

#79. When you're talking about capital and financial things, which I certainly pay a lot of attention to, I base those decisions on one question that I typically ask myself, which is 'Does it help us to build a better company?'

Jim Bankoff

#80. Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.

Urijah Faber

#81. Sometimes you had a better shot with a jury, that body of ones "peers" who make decisions with their emotional brains; especially if your client was guilty.

Kenneth Eade

#82. If you can become more motivated, more focused, better at setting goals and making good decisions, then you're a long way down the path to becoming more productive.

Charles Duhigg

#83. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else's notions thrust upon you.

Christopher Paolini

#84. It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind.

Frank Herbert

#85. When you feel like you're not making the best of decisions, don't beat yourself up and say that "I never make the right choices." Choose to say, "I have the wisdom of God and I can make better choices.

Jamie Larbi

#86. Destiny is not a mystery. For better or worse, your destiny is the result of your daily decisions and defining decisions.

Mark Batterson

#87. We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.

Daniel Dennett

#88. Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

Andre Agassi

#89. The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#90. The world is better served by syncretic economists and policymakers who can hold multiple ideas in their heads than by 'one-handed' economists who promote one big idea regardless of context.

Dani Rodrik

#91. Make more decisions. That's the only way to get better at it.

Seth Godin

#92. Learn to bet on yourself and have confidence in your own decisions. No one knows your business better than you.

Leah Busque

#93. Regardless of your age, you can make better choices in the moment. Small decisions - about how you eat, move, and sleep each day - count more than you think. As I have learned from personal experience, these choices shape your life.

Tom Rath

#94. One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better

Larry Niven

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

Ronald Reagan

#96. I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions.

Evander Holyfield

#97. The choices we make in life are equally important to us, as those of others are to them. It is an arrogant attitude in the mind of those who feel superior to believe their choices are better than others. Having respect for others regardless of who they are is the greatest choice anyone can make.

Ellen J. Barrier

#98. I wanted to make decisions on who I loved by who completed me, made me feel good about myself. Who I could love freely and help make a better person by just being there.

Kim Harrison

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Aslaug Magnusdottir

#100. There is no evidence that more regulation makes things better. The most highly regulated industry in America is commercial banking, and that didn't save those institutions from making terrible decisions.

Wilbur Ross