Quotes About Making Business Decisions

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Whut gempmums says an' what dey thinks is two diffunt things.

Margaret Mitchell

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

Geraldine Laybourne

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Michael Bloomberg

#9. Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.

Taylor Swift

#10. 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

#11. Won't get done by looking at it!

David Anderson

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Robert Byrne

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

Don Bluth

#16. Well, I want you to know how much I appreciate this. Really.

Benjamin Day

#17. I had made what I believe was one of the more valuable decisions of my business life. This was to confine all efforts solely to making major gains in the long-run.

Philip Arthur Fisher

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

David Frum

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

Nkem Paul

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

Todd Stocker

#22. We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.

John Berryman

#23. It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly.

David Hume

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

David J. Greer

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.

Walter A. Shewhart

#29. 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

#30. Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.

Lemony Snicket

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

Bill Forsyth

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

Joe Hill