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Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.
-African Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
-Chinese Proverb
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The difference is wide that sheets will not decide.
-English Proverb
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The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
-Anon.
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No answer is also an answer.
-Proverb
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All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to tht moment.
-Richard Bach
Running from Saftey
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He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
-Kenneth Baker
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You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.
-Jean Baudrillard
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Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
-Henri Becquerel
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
-A. C. Benson
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
-Aneurin Bevan
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Where there is no counsel, the people perish; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. Proverbs 29:18; 11:14
-Bible
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
-Omar Bradley
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Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order
-Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
Address: To the Text and Teaching Symposium, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., October 12, 1985
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Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right.
-Donald Bullock
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I take great comfort in having people around who can walk in my office and tell me what's on their mind. Part of my job is -- they say, what's your job? My job is decision-maker. I make a lot of decisions. Obviously, some of which you've seen, and a lot of them you don't. And they're big ones and little ones. But you make a lot of decisions. And if you don't -- if you're uncertain about all the facts surrounding a decision, you've got to rely upon people. And you've then got to create an environment in which people are willing to come in and say, here's what's on my mind.
It's important at the presidential level. It's important in business. You've got to have people comfortable about saying, Here's what I think you ought to do, Mr. CEO. You've got to listen and have a -- I've always believed in a flat organizational chart. I think the worst thing that can happen for decision-makers is to get a filtered point of view.
-George W. Bush
Importance of Small Business in Economic Growth, answering the question: How do you remain upbeat when you're surrounded by the burdens of leadership?, January 19, 2006
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
-Samuel Butler
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Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.
-Adrian Cadbury
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Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
-James Callaghan
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
-Elias Canetti
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Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
-George Canning
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Books about Decisions
