Browsing Topic Best Bad Decision Quotes

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don’t blame others or make excuses for yourself.

We killed hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East. I always say it’s the bloodiest sand anywhere in the world and it didn’t have to be that way. The single worst decision our country ever made was to go into the Middle East.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

Made my bed and here I lie, try to hold my head up high. Lying to myself sometimes, bad decisions but I, I won’t cry.

We’ve all made bad decisions, but they haven’t always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.

Even bad decisions usually result in good lessons learned.

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

A very simple bad decision is to get into debt. And that is very expensive.

Bad decisions, good intentions.

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions – all my own, I might add – I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

In order to make the tough decisions we have to know what our values are and who we’re fighting for and our priorities and if we are spending $300 billion on tax cuts for people who don’t need them and weren’t even asking for them, and we are leaving out health care which is crushing on people all across the country, then I think we have made a bad decision and I want to make sure we’re not shortchanging our long term priorities.

We can make mistakes about what we ought to do, and these are not the same as making bad decisions about what to do.

When I look at my life now and all the mistakes I’ve made, all the bad decisions I’ve made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don’t think I would have changed anything.

A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them….Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions.

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.

I’m not a horror movie guy, but I think the guy that did Saw, or maybe House or something, he was saying you love that age as a storyteller because a nineteen-year-old is still dumb enough to make really bad decisions, but he’s allowed to be out on his own.

The electronic town hall allows for speedy communications and bad decision-making.

There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.

So much of what I’ve learned, so much of what’s good in my life, was learned because something bad happened, or from making the wrong decision. Through bad decisions I learned how to find the ways to make the right ones.

Everybody makes bad decisions. I am sure I have made my share of them over 40 years of service. Or I have made good decisions and have been overruled. The real challenge, when you are overruled, is to remember who the boss is and don’t take it personally.

Sounds good, doesn’t work. Never going to happen. Our country is suffering because people like Secretary [Hillary] Clinton have made such bad decisions in terms of our jobs and in terms of what’s going on.

We had a bad court. Got a bad decision, had a court that’s been overturned I may be wrong but I think it’s 80% of the time.

The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mother must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment’s anxiety, and was never a child.

Although the decision to get a dog can seem light on the surface, it’s actually a long-term commitment much like a human mate. The consequences of a bad decision can be difficult for everyone involved.

Make a decision and then make it right. There just are no wrong decisions. You could go this way, or that way, and either way will eventually get you to where you want to be. But in the moment you start complimenting yourself on the decision you’ve made, in that moment, you come back into vibrational alignment with who-you-really-are.

Everybody get drunk and make bad decisions.

There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions…

Our military has been greatly weakened by a lot of bad decisions and other things.

I find it very, very hard doing what the law on DACA says exactly to do, and you know, the law is rough. I’m not talking about new laws. I’m talking the existing law is very rough. As far as the new order, the new order is going to be very much tailored to the – what I consider to be a very bad decision.

Let me tell you about the travel ban. We had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban. But we had a bad court. Got a bad decision. We had a court that’s been overturned. Again, may be wrong, but I think it’s 80 percent of the time, a lot. We’re going to keep going with that decision. We’re going to put in a new executive order.

I’m asked, what about criminal prosecution of those on wall street? You know what, it’s probably because none of them committed any crimes. They just made some incredibly bad decisions.

If you make enough bad decisions, every once in a while things work out for you.

Don’t mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.