Top 100 Good Decision Quotes
#2. It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.
William Pollard
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.
Soren Kierkegaard
#6. A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato
#7. He felt, and not for the first time today, that he had not made a good decision in his personal or professional life since 1989.
Michael Chabon
#8. 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
#9. Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.
Harold Geneen
#10. 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
#11. Just once I want it to be easy and neat. But no, there is never a good decision. I pick what I can live with.
Ilona Andrews
#12. Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired.
Joe Rogan
#13. There is no such thing as a good decision and a bad decision. There are only decisions. Make them, fuck up, enjoy, repeat.
Daniel Smith
#15. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.
Alexander Hamilton
#16. One reason people make bad decisions is they don't have a good decision as one of their options.
Dave Ramsey
#17. 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
#18. My smartest move was joining Google. It wasn't obvious at the time that it would be a good decision. A lot of people, many of my friends, advised me against it.
Susan Wojcicki
#19. The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.
Seth Godin
#20. Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.
Emily Oster
#21. Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.
Michael J. Marx
#22. What we've learned is that if you can make the right decision in the supermarket aisle, it's a heck of a lot easier to make a good decision when you reach in your cupboard when you're craving a snack at eight o'clock at night.
Tom Rath
#23. A panic state is not helpful to good decision making.
Max Barry
#24. Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.
M. Russell Ballard
#25. Even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision.
Jonathan Pryce
#26. When you're put in a position where you're having to decide, Is this a good decision? Is this the right decision for everybody involved? - it makes me feel a little unsteady, unsure.
Tyler Blackburn
#27. Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
Colin Powell
#28. 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
#29. couldn't help but think, if I only made bad decisions for the rest of my life, at least I had made one really good decision with her.
Max Monroe
#30. In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.
James Surowiecki
#31. I am not a good decision maker; that's one of the things I don't like about myself.
Ashanti
#32. To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.
Denise Moreland
#33. We met in court. I don't think we qualify as good decision makers.
Liz Reinhardt
#34. I just try to be the same guy I've always been. Calm, collected, and being a good decision-maker and delivering the ball to the right guys.
Scott Tolzien
#35. Model 4 further holds that most of the time decision makers are guided by two competing motivations: the desire to make a good decision and the desire to make an easy decision.
Lau Redlawsk
#36. Dr. Charles came to visit me one last time.
"Have you thought about what I told you?"
"Yup," I said.
"And?"
"And I think you made a really good decision by becoming a surgeon. You would have made a lousy therapist.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#37. The aristocracy had crumbled in her hands; the power vacuum she purchased was a good decision.
Charli Frisky
#38. When I look at the records and see where my place in the history of the game (in Japan with Orix) might be, I guess you could say it was a good decision to come here. It's not just me. Maybe I'll have an effect on others in the international part of the game.
Ichiro Suzuki
#39. He looked in her eyes, and she wondered if she made a good decision starting something like that with a guy like Nero. She knew he was like a wolf. The man was definitely an animal, and he looked at her only as food. Yet that excited a small part of Elle, and that was what scared her the most
Sarah Brianne
#40. 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
#41. information costs," is not the way to maximize one's investment. The true maximizer would determine just how much information seeking was the amount needed to lead to a very good decision.
Barry Schwartz
#42. Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was the first nation in history to recognize that public education for every citizen, regardless of class or station, was vital to its future ...
Mitt Romney
#43. The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
Mary Doria Russell
#44. 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
#45. Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man-he made a good decision.
Donald Trump
#46. A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly.
Edwin Louis Cole
#47. The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it ... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
Alain Juppe
#48. I think the decision that's been made with respect to allowing gays to serve openly in the military is a good one.
Dick Cheney
#49. Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.
Emily Oster
#50. I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.
Eula Biss
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.
D.J. MacHale
#54. 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
#55. Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.
Warren Buffett
#56. When you make a decision and a commitment to do something good for yourself, it is like dropping a pebble in a pond. It has a rippling effect. The firmer the decision, the stronger the frequency and wider the range of things that will be reached.
Iyanla Vanzant
#57. You'd get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You'd resist the temptation to dabble. You'd make more good decisions and you'd make more big decisions.
Warren Buffett
#58. The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
Xavier Becerra
#59. I took the decision that everything I would post would be positive. If you say, 'Ahh, I feel terrible today,' and you spread that to the eyes and ears of millions of people, that's not good.
Jerome Jarre
#60. Every decision in life; whether good or bad, teaches us a lesson for the next decisions that we will someday meet again.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#61. After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#62. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the decision to choose hope one decides infinitely more than it seems, because it is an eternal decision
Soren Kierkegaard
#63. Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to "make a good impression" - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.
Arnold Schoenberg
#64. 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
#65. Ensure that your daily chores, thought, actions, speeches and steps are taken with the purpose of giving you a good brand. Decide to be who God wanted you to be.
Israelmore Ayivor
#66. There was so much pressure by myself and everyone else and I can't handle this by myself. It's not good for me so I made the decision never go to a ski coach for mental help. I said last season I will try a mental coach and see how it works.
Michaela Dorfmeister
#67. There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.
Robin Hobb
#68. Good decisions are pearls on your neck.
Bad decisions are thorns in your side.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#69. Even Arnold's adviser says he was shocked by his decision to run. I mean, his people were backstage that night and they had no idea. He totally fooled them. Who knew Arnold was that good of an actor? If he had done that in a movie, he'd have an Academy Award by now.
Jay Leno
#70. As long as you make your own decision and do thing because it feels good to you, there will always be people who agree and people who don't.
Kristen Stewart
#71. Social expectations about what constitutes a good or a bad mother haunt every decision, and the rise of the parental advice industry ensures that moms and dads feel inadequate at every turn.
Jessica Valenti
#72. The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
Voltaire
#73. There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.
Randy Travis
#74. Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.
Dick Vitale
#75. There is no perfect decision - only the perfectly surrendered decision to press through our fears and know that God is working in us to bring about good through us.
Lysa TerKeurst
#76. I've already made my decision. I have as much to lose as any of them." "She makes some good points," said Cinder. "Surprisingly," added Scarlet. Jacin
Marissa Meyer
#77. Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
Hans Rosling
#78. 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
#79. What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
#80. I feel good about the decisions that I made and I?m happy. You know, I?m really happy.
Tom Cruise
#81. I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.
Laura Marling
#82. You need to make a decision. Either be with her and accept the bad with the good, or get out of her life. Because like it or not, you represent Christ to her, and the last thing she needs is for you to walk away when things get hard.
Tammy L. Gray
#83. I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.
Aleksandar Hemon
#84. 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
#85. The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes "separation of good from evil;" it establishes unquestionable
Herbert Marcuse
#86. The early commitments, early recruiting, that had changed. The whole clock is pushed ahead and you have to make decisions earlier about who to and who not to recruit. Is that a good thing I'm not sure, but it is reality.
Kirk Ferentz
#87. Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be eagerly followed. Few people will commit suicide without a push. And fewer still will pay good money to be told to do what is against human nature and self-interest to do.
Paul Samuelson
#88. Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.
David Fincher
#89. As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.
William James
#90. You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#91. It is not enough to take good decisions and make good choices. It is necessary to take heed and comply with whatever you plan and that can only happen by the influence of the Lord God, the giver of your dreams.
Israelmore Ayivor
#92. 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
#93. Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply from one decision to another.
Jules Henry
#94. With F1, it's really a combination of many things. You have to have good endurance, good strength in certain muscles, you need to be fast, have good reactions and good decisions. It's not as simple as one thing. You need to be a complete athlete.
Valtteri Bottas
#96. I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.
Hulk Hogan
#97. I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think.
John Oliver
#98. Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.
Charlie Munger
#99. I actually think the debate is a good idea because if internationally somehow we can bring home to Americans that their decision about who they select as their candidate has international implications then by all means we should.
Kit Malthouse
#100. Boxers are going away and not getting decisions and are losing, so it's not looking good for us, is it, as a nation? Thanks for pointing that out. It's put even more pressure on me now. I don't mind that at all. I love pressure.
Carl Froch
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