Best Decision Makers Quotes

The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: ‘Is this a generic situation or an exception?’

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.

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

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.

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

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

The key is not to call the decision maker. The key is to have the decision maker call you.

The NFL is in premium interest time, in the fourth quarter [of the business year] when you have Thanksgiving, Christmas, and that’s when we try to get the most decision-makers in front of the television, in the fourth quarter.

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

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.

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.

So as soon as you want something to happen you begin skewing the data to support it. Our stuff is invaluable to decision-makers precisely because we have no ax to grind.

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

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

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.

There are always pressures on decision-makers other than just what is right or what is wrong.

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

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

The advantage of a free market is that it allows millions of decision-makers to respond individually to freely determined prices, allocating resources – labor, capital and human ingenuity – in a manner that can’t be mimicked by a central plan, however brilliant the central planner.

Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems.

Play within the system. Be a decision maker.

The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless. This is because so much that drives the circumstances of the anthropocene is the aggregation of apparently negligible acts, often amplified by technology, rather than decisive acts by autonomous decision-makers.

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.

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

I am not a good decision maker; that’s one of the things I don’t like about myself.

I said last week that the number on Jean’s back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader.

The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among alternatives were limited and the outcomes uncertain, but almost always there were choices. Despite the variability of these individual decisions, taken cumulatively they produced clear patterns of institutional change

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

Islamist-jihadist terrorism-a plague that has spread to almost every corner of the world-creates painful dilemmas for the peoples and decision makers who confront it. Its rapid, shape-shifting advance has sometimes confounded efforts to comprehend its origins, motives, and aims. Its sophistication in exploiting liberal values poses challenges and difficulties for the Western world, and for liberal democratic states in general, in attaining effective and balanced counter-terrorism policies.

How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That’s something that has to be attended to right away.

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.

I understand we have, you know, a very unique situation, a very volatile election, two very high-profile candidates. You want to be very careful about what you do. But, you know, my sense is always – this is with respect to any decision maker – and that is you have procedures in place, when you follow those procedures, you’re more likely to get the right outcome and you’re less likely to be second guessed simply because you have the procedures and you take away the argument that there are politics involved if you follow the procedures.

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

Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank… need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path. They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.

A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.