Quotes About Decision Makers

#1. Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

Barney Frank

#2. Decision makers with emotional excellence have the ability to dispassionately examine alternatives via fact finding, analysis, structured planning, objective evaluations, and comparison.

Pearl Zhu

#3. We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

Octavia Spencer

#4. We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

Thor Heyerdahl

#5. The decision makers face each other. No safety screen stands between the issues and the highest authorities.

George P. Bush

#6. You don't get to make their decisions but you do get to choose the decision makers.

Sam Altman

#7. Children aren't helped to become caring members of a community, or ethical decision-makers, or critical thinkers, so much as they're simply trained to follow directions.

Alfie Kohn

#8. We met in court. I don't think we qualify as good decision makers.

Liz Reinhardt

#9. Certain types of decisions can be safely ignored. Some issues will go away with the passage of time, others will be so slow developing that the decision-makers will depart before the results of their neglect becomes manifest. Which brings us to the environment.

Jack McDevitt

#10. The best decision-makers are always armed with the best information and data!

George Raveling

#11. We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.

Charles B. Rangel

#12. With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#13. 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

#14. Having a team of people united by one purpose - to bring Christ to that city - is key for the emotional stability of all decision makers.

J.A. Perez

#15. The failure of decision makers to grapple with the inner workings of their own minds, and their desire to indulge their gut feelings, made it "quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.

Michael Lewis

#16. In order to be effective decision makers and to live satisfying and contented lives, people need to be aware of their goals, desires, and purposes and need to be able to evaluate or assess the extent to which they are heading in the direction specified by their inner standards.

Timothy Carey

#17. The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy.

David Korten

#18. The influencer strategy hasn't been built around celebrities. We're looking for influencers within every marketplace, who are the people who help influence decision-makers within that community.

Keith Belling

#19. I want the least number of decision makers. We want to empower people to get more things done and also give permission to question orthodoxy.

Satya Nadella

#20. Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior ranks in the administration, senators on Capitol Hill.

Lionel Barber

#21. There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.

Bruce Cockburn

#22. As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

Roy Barnes

#23. It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have a close relationship if decision-makers in Washington know very little, if anything, about the religious beliefs, values, and practices of India's 800 million Hindus?

Tulsi Gabbard

#24. Quitters quit, decision makers move on!

John Di Lemme

#25. Ideas can never be traced to any one source. They are tossed back and forth between people until the decision makers step in and choose what they think is a success formula.

Jack Kirby

#26. I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

Jane Goodall

#27. American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

Samantha Power

#28. Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it.

Elizabeth Warren

#29. Every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change.

Jane Goodall

#30. It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.

Frank Herbert

#31. Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.

Margaret Catley-Carlson

#32. What led to September 11 is that most decision makers in the White House thought like you. They supported despotic regimes in the Middle East to multiply the profits of oil and arms companies, and armed violence escalated and reached our shores.

Alaa Al Aswany

#33. Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let's face it, frivolous - especially the visual arts, with their connotation of "the starving artist" and the mistaken concept of necessary talent

Betty Edwards

#34. I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

Bronwyn Bishop

#35. 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

#36. Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Pearl Zhu

#38. But then it dawned on me that the opinion of someone who is always wrong has its own special utility to decision-makers.

Warren Buffett

#39. Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.

Brian Tracy

#40. If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

Harold H. Greene

#41. Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day decision makers.

Bill Jensen

#42. Where I live, if I put solar panels on my roof I'm not allowed to sell that energy back to the grid. I can't change that restriction myself. I need our local decision-makers to fix that.

Katharine Hayhoe

#43. Try to rally up as many people as you can with as much information as you can to try to get it to appear in front of the right people in the organization who are the decision-makers to greenlight the project.

Jon Oringer

#44. It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#45. The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive. One

M. Scott Peck

#46. When we allow our children to become independent decision makers we give them a false idea of liberty and a mistaken notion about freedom.

Tedd Tripp

#47. For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.

Brian Kernighan

#48. The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#49. We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact.

Daniel Kahneman

#50. The need to engage businesses and decision makers with customers can only increase in importance, and as it does, the market research industry must recognise that engagement is a facet of what we do.

Alex Johnston

#51. our irrationality happens the same way, again and again. Whether we are acting as consumers, businesspeople, or policy makers, understanding how we are predictably irrational provides a starting point for improving our decision making and changing the way we live for the better.

Dan Ariely

#52. The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'

Peter Drucker