Good Decision Making Quotes

#1. I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.

Chris Paine

#2. The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

Emily Oster

#3. Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.

Mike Johanns

#4. In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

James Surowiecki

#5. Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.

M. Russell Ballard

#6. A panic state is not helpful to good decision making.

Max Barry

#7. Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.

Michael J. Marx

#8. Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

Emily Oster

#9. The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

Seth Godin

#10. The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Malcolm Gladwell

#11. Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.

Adele

#12. Being a good, innovative librarian means taking a humanistic stance toward policy, decision-making, and experimentation. It means focusing on the heart.

Michael Stephens

#13. It's still about making a good decision. We all want to have the Reggie Bush's of the world on our football team, but it's not reality.

Scott Linehan

#14. There's always the question of what is good and evil and the gray area in between where that most people live. In everyday life, things aren't black or white, but rather there's a lot of coping and really tough decision making.

Laura San Giacomo

#15. When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad. What is bad is if you use either of them in an inappropriate circumstance.

Malcolm Gladwell

#16. While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

Narendra Modi

#17. Indeed, consumer choice informed by conscience is an unstoppable force for good.

Wayne Pacelle

#18. Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

Mark Twain

#19. I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.

Ted Cruz

#20. The hardest part is setting the camera on the tripod, or making the decision to bring the camera out of the car, or just raising the camera to your face, believing, by those actions, that whatever you find before you, whatever you find there, is going to be good.

Sally Mann

#21. Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals is instructive in painting a realistic portrayal of Lincoln and his methods for accomplishing his objectives. In fact, many good political biographies are useful in learning about power, strategy, and decision-making.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#22. Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine.

Sebastian Coe

#23. Whether you decision is good or bad at least you had the balls to make one.

Benjamin Bayani

#24. Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.

Malcolm Gladwell

#25. I can't hate people for making judgment on me, or making a decision of liking me or not liking me. All I can do is try to better as a person. And I'm good with knowing everything isn't always going to be perfect.

Chris Brown

#26. A good decision cannot guarantee a good outcome. All real decisions are made under uncertainty. A decision is therefore a bet, and evaluating it as good or not must depend on the stakes and the odds, not on the outcome.

Ward Edwards

#27. It is a mistake to conceive of choice and decision-making as a process of selecting from existing options according to a fixed formula. That omits the most important element of decision-making, namely the creation of new options. Good

David Deutsch

#28. 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

#29. Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.

Peter Drucker

#30. There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later.

Sidney Lumet

#31. The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.

Mary Doria Russell

#32. The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.

Kenneth C. Frazier

#33. Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant.

Rands

#34. A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly.

Edwin Louis Cole

#35. Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

Emily Oster

#36. People try to get into your life. They try and keep you off-balance, keep you from making good decisions that will empower you - because if your attention field is sharp - you will see if anyone is in your life for ill reasons.

Frederick Lenz

#37. With all the decision making in my life, I often have to pause, look up and remember God is the One working behind the scenes. I say to myself, He is able to work all things out for good. I just need to submit to Him and His ways. I can rest.

K.P. Yohannan

#38. The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.

Mara Wilson

#39. One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.

Steve Goodier

#40. 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

#41. On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

Robert K. Greenleaf

#42. Without women's full inclusion at the decision making table, we cannot have any healthy decision making that is good for men and women alike.

Zainab Salbi

#43. Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#44. All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else's poor decision making.

Joshua Ferris

#45. Understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

Malcolm Gladwell

#46. Look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don't lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.

Joel Greenblatt

#47. She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her.

K. Martin Beckner

#48. None of this is to deny that the Niger Delta has made mistakes. It has, and a good number at that. But then, mistakes are made to make wiser and therefore help in better decision making.

Emi Iyalla

#49. You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

Julian Assange

#50. Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#51. It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

Paulo Coelho

#52. A hero, in his mind, was not someone who suffered disaster after disaster, heroically pulling through with great endurance, but rather one who focused his intelligence and skills to avoid disaster, thus succeeding by good planning and crafty decision making.

Stephen R. Bown

#53. You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

Archie Manning

#54. Making one brilliant decision and a whole bunch of mediocre ones isn't as good as making a whole bunch of generally smart decisions throughout the whole process.

John Carmack