Business Decisions Quotes

#1. engineers agree to adapt the product to the business's constantly changing requirements but are not responsible for the quality of those business decisions.

Eric Ries

#2. When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

Herbert V. Prochnow

#3. strategic dementia is a loss of the ability to make rational business decisions because you are not sure of your strategy.

Christopher Surdak

#4. It's an open secret: Even now, in the 21st century, Korean executives often consult spiritual advisers before making major business decisions - decisions that can affect their employees around the world.

Kim Young-ha

#5. At some point in any adult life, we have to understand that business decisions cannot be made with an emotional bias.

Carlos Wallace

#6. Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

James Cook

#7. I recently assured Public Sector Banks they will have total autonomy in taking business decisions.

Narendra Modi

#8. More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.

Peter Drucker

#9. If you're constantly making business decisions on behalf of your investors first, ultimately you're going to wear down your other stakeholders. It's going to be potentially hurtful for your employees and your customers and the community you do business with.

Danny Meyer

#10. No one on earth is allowed to question my business decisions,

Assem Allam

#11. Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.

Courtney Love

#12. I know how the world works. Business decisions are not made for the good of the people, but for the sake of profit, loyalty and expedience.

Christopher Fowler

#13. avoid the common business pitfall of making business decisions based on the company's skill set rather than on the customers' needs and desires.

Jeofrey Bean

#14. We are a company that lives and breathes a philosophy that's centered on not only making sound business decisions but also personally and professionally finding ways to contribute to the well being of society. We are also a company that understands community.

Magic Johnson

#15. Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

Jewel

#16. Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it's probably higher than that.

Jack Dangermond

#17. Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.

Luke Bryan

#18. If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.

Ken Blanchard

#19. Landlords in New York are generally the scum of the earth. They're beneficiaries of the worst kind of nepotism, eating off the good business decisions of their parents. They have no compassion because they've never had to work for shit to know how it feels to need a fucking break. (256-257)

Eddie Huang

#20. Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

Peter Drucker

#21. I've also built my own business, and obviously it's a brand that I've built and it's wholly owned by me and something that certainly my experience observing him and working with him and for him has informed how I make business decisions around my brand. But it's my company.

Ivanka Trump

#22. Many people fail in their career, business and relationship, and others get stuck because of their inability to make quality decisions.

Nkem Paul

#23. I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.

James Surowiecki

#24. There are no perfect decisions, only excellent applications.

Todd Stocker

#25. Don't make promises when you are motivated or happy. Don't make decisions when you are nervous or upset.

Ehab Atalla

#26. In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route.

Suzy Kassem

#27. I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

Avril Lavigne

#28. I know the consequences of my decisions. I've said no to the biggest of brands. So when I say no to something, I know how much business I will lose out on.

Kangana Ranaut

#29. It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.

Macklemore

#30. The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.

Clayton M Christensen

#31. It's not your business to decide if a woman you love should, or should not, marry you. It's her business. Tell her all about yourself and leave the decision to her. God knows it's trouble enough having to make one's own decisions in life without having to make other people's too.

Elizabeth Goudge

#32. I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

James Sinegal

#33. Never forget that absolutely everything you do is for your customers. Make every decision - even decisions about whether to expand the business, raise money, or promote someone - according to what's best for your customers.

Derek Sivers

#34. Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.

David J. Greer

#35. If there is one fatal flaw in this business, it is allowing isolated information to drive trading or investing decisions-committing money without understanding all the risks. And there is only one way to understand all the risks: through systematic knowledge.

Victor Sperandeo

#36. The toy business began to drive the [Lucasfilm] empire. It's a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they do on films. It's natural to make decisions that protect the toy business, but that's not the best thing for making quality films.

Gary Kurtz

#37. Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.

Laura Lang

#38. Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).

Julian Casablancas

#39. In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.

Ben Bernanke

#40. Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action.

Marcelo Claure

#41. I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted a world where heroes and villains were clearly labeled.

Marian Keyes

#42. A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.

Raymond A. Spruance

#43. Individual and institutional investors alike frequently demonstrate an inability to make long-term investment decisions based on business fundamentals.

Seth Klarman

#44. The future is dependent on the decisions you make today.

Omer Soker

#45. Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions.
We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.

Azim Premji

#46. Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

Napoleon Hill

#47. Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven't liked all of his decisions and some of his rhetoric. But generally, I think the administration is quite open and accessible.

David Rubenstein

#48. I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

Donald Trump

#49. We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

David Frum

#50. Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

Gerry Schwartz

#51. If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.

Tom Rath

#52. Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.

Peter Drucker

#53. You have to be able to separate business from the love of the game. There were a lot of decisions made business-wise that I wasn't happy with, and I took a lot of blame over the years. But you have to be able to separate that from the love you have for the game.

Kobe Bryant

#54. Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.

Christie Hefner

#55. Personal feelings don't make for good politics, legal decisions, or business deals.

Roger Zelazny

#56. Often in business we take decisions based on how we interpret the situation, not being sure of whether the call we have taken will work or not. When it works, we are often taken by surprise. But the world at large demands an explanation.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#57. I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

John Legend

#58. When I was younger, I didn't know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things when I was choosing projects, because one of the biggest creative decisions that an actor can make in the film business is what you will work on.

James Franco

#59. Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly.

Dianna Booher

#60. When you don't involve design from the beginning, other people, developers and business types, end up making design decisions without even really knowing it. These decisions later become constraints that the actual designer has to work around.

Jessica Karle Heltzel

#61. Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions.

Chris Murray

#62. Four-Step Dimensional Design Process The four key decisions made during the design of a dimensional model include: 1. Select the business process. 2. Declare the grain. 3. Identify the dimensions. 4. Identify the facts.

Ralph Kimball

#63. Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

Gale Anne Hurd

#64. Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in business. Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large.

Thomas Sowell

#65. In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.

Don Yaeger

#66. 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

#67. The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

Bill Forsyth

#68. If a measurement matters at all, it is because it must have some conceivable effect on decisions and behaviour. If we can't identify a decision that could be affected by a proposed measurement and how it could change those decisions, then the measurement simply has no value

Douglas W. Hubbard

#69. How do you decisions change if retirement is not an option?

Ramit Sethi

#70. Any business model based around poor people making bad decisions out of ignorance and desperation always works.

Joe Hill

#71. Business is all about learning to balance the short-term, medium-term and long-term and I think it's when things are going well it covers up a lot of mistakes and bad decisions because you're growing so quickly ...

Tony Hsieh

#72. Nothing tells you more about an organization than the way it makes decisions.

Dennis Bakke

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

Leah Busque

#74. Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

Kiana Tom

#75. Generals aren't in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President's decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to do that ought to be fired on the spot.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#76. You will need to create a discipline where head and heart can both
be involved in the decisions that you make. Taking the emotion out of something you feel very passionate about is far from easy. But easy don't build great.

David Hieatt

#77. Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.

Geraldine Laybourne

#78. The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis.

Roger Goodell

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.

Peter Diamandis

#82. When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.

Daymond John

#83. Business owners are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an owner away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Jean Baudrillard

#84. There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

Michael Bloomberg

#85. I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.

Dalia Mogahed

#86. I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

Jesse Helms

#87. Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

Justin Bieber

#88. Tough management is a way to approach work. It is a practical, reasonable, and organized way to get to decisions more easily, make the numbers on a consistent basis, have those around you understand where you stand, and increase the business.

Chuck Martin

#89. "Growth!" is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.

James C. Collins

#90. The interesting thing is that there are so few important decisions. You don't have to go in the "right" direction. You don't have to enter the "right" business. What you have to do is have made a decision as to what you're going to do and then you just have to figure out how to succeed at it.

Ken Oshman

#91. I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.

Chris Robinson

#92. It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

John Harvey-Jones

#93. Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they will eventually be forced to make.

Patricia Hewitt

#94. I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business. Remember many new businesses do not make it and running a business will be a tough experience, involving long hours and many hard decisions - it helps to have that passion to keep you going.

Richard Branson

#95. Cold passion' is calm, considered and long lasting. Both the brain and the heart are working together. Emotions have been taken
out of decision-making. And decisions are given time, looked at from all angles. Cold passion is much more effective at getting results.

David Hieatt

#96. Customers want to make informed decisions based on useful information, valuable engagements and brand affinity.

Dane Brookes

#97. To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.

Warren Buffett

#98. Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Kin Hubbard

#99. There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.

William Morris

#100. When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

Don Bluth