Decision Making Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old decision making quotes, decision making sayings, and decision making proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war. Jim Rohn
Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making. Michael D. Eisner
Whenever it comes to decision making, Remember the part about having confidence. Auliq Ice
The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us. Malcolm Gladwell
Find ways to decentralize. Move decision making authority down and out. Encourage a more entrepreneurial approach. Donald Rumsfeld
The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist. Seth Godin
We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success. Bill Cahan
Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism. Adam Fletcher
In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making. James Surowiecki
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
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
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
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution. Robert H. Schuller
The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations. Aruna Roy
Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way. James E. Faust
The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of action, or strategy, from among the set of admissible strategies. Richard Arnold Epstein
The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you anywhere; people who are going everywhere can take you somewhere. Israelmore Ayivor
You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. Michelle Obama
Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realities of the present and insights of the future. Amit Ray
Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice. Michael J. Marx
Always make decisions that prioritize your inner peace. Izey Victoria Odiase
Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science. Pearl Zhu
Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. Paul O'Brien
The art of decision making includes the art of questioning. Pearl Zhu
The speed of decision making is the essence of good governance. Piyush Goyal
Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was. Tibor Fischer
Design is nothing if not decision making. Henry Petroski
Courage and confidence are what decision making is all about. Mike Krzyzewski
A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making. Jacques Bertin
One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking. Daniel Kahneman
Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers. Nancy Gibbs
Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered — what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making. Marvin Bower
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
The challenge of life is regretless decision making, relentless pursuit of vision with faith, forgiving others, enduring pain with a smile & achieving goals with an extra MILE Sujit Lalwani
Long term thinking and planing enhances short term decision making. Make sure you have a plan of your life in your hand, and that includes the financial plan and your mission. Manoj Arora
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
I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000. Daniel Kahneman
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. Peter Drucker