Quotes about Decision-making

Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.

Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

This is one of the innovator's dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

But instead of telling him what to think, I taught him how to think. He then reached a bold decision about what to do, on his own.

In the early stage, managers are puzzle solvers, not number crunchers.

Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.

We are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.