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“while the executive should give every possible value to the information of the specialist, no executive should abdicate thinking on any subject because of the expert. The expert's information or opinion should not be allowed automatically to become a decision. On the other hand, full recognition should be given to the part the expert plays in decision making.”

Thinking Giving Should Play Hands Values Given Decision Business Opinion Subjects Information Recognition Experts Decision Making Executives Specialists

Book:Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.”

Decision Business Decision Making Limbo

Author:Seth

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.”

Needs Business Determine Injury Decision Making Rulers

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.”

Inspirational Long Decision Results Business Tradition Blame Decision Making Engagement Inadequate Guessing Blaming Others Second Guessing

Author:Scott Adams

“One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

Life Is Spirit Business Attitude Failing Failure Succeed Decision Making Overcoming Failure Positive Affirmations Trying To Succeed Fail To Succeed

Book:Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”

Politics Sides Decision Business Middle Dangerous Standing Decision Making Traffic Both Sides Two Sides Knocked Down Iron Lady Middle Of The Road

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Please all, and you will please none.”

Literature Business Please Decision Making Approval Fables Fine Feathers

Book:Aesop's fables

Source: Aesop's fables

“When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”

Business Economic Economics Management Remains Investing Reputation Decision Making Brilliance Buffets Bad Reputation Bad Business Financial Investment Image And Reputation Market Risk

Book:Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”

“An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.”

People Inspirational Deals Business Bother Decision Making Executives Trivia

Author:Jack Welch

“Every decision you make is a mistake.”

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Author:Edward Dahlberg

“There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.”

Business Decision Making

Author:Joseph Addison

“Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.”

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Author:Cullen Hightower

“The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.”

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Author:Walter Wriston

“Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.”

Imagination Decision Business Creativity Claims Speed Thrive Decision Making Monopoly Organisation

Author:N. R. Narayana Murthy

“The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.”

Doe Business Information Needed Investing Data Decision Making Fewer Overload Blackouts

Book:Technology, Management and Society

Source: Technology, Management and Society