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Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom.”

Should Care Able Individual Belief Religious Decision Female Employee Boss Bedroom Employers Religious Belief Reproductive Health

Author:Dina Titus

“We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.”

Should Wells Use Decision Teach Students Tools Experiments Data Executives

Author:Dan Ariely

“Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.”

Firsts Wells May Sometimes Helping Asks Prayer Decision Situation Substitutes Evident

Author:George W. Romney

“I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.”

Wells Reason Facts Helping Feelings Sides Decision Fascinated Shady

Author:Antonio Damasio

“I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.”

Feels Certain Lost Ability Decision Emotion Study Circumstances Majors Patient Emote

Author:Antonio Damasio

“Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly.”

Wells Play Decision Badminton

Author:Dmitry Medvedev

“The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.”

Way Whole Problem Action Past Decision Support Teaching Taught Late Ethics Available Driven Managers Data Enterprise Too Late Taking Action Consultants

Author:Clayton Christensen

“In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.”

Made Goal Decision Company Objectives

Author:Ben Horowitz

“In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.”

Running Faces Choices Easy Difficult Decision Company Consequence Lonely Excuse Ceo Folds Wrong Choices Plentiful

Author:Ben Horowitz

“The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every movement, every decision that was made and implemented, only led them one step closer to the abyss.”

Made Whole Fall Decision Steps Fantasy Movement Organization Collectives Colleagues Abyss

Author:Steig Larsson

“Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the recognized possibility of failure in fact occurs. But over time, more thoughtful decision-making will lead to better overall results, and more thoughtful decision-making can be encouraged by evaluating decisions on how well they were made rather than on outcome.”

Wells Made Facts Individual Decision Results Successful Possibility Outcomes Thoughtful Being Successful Decision Making Unsuccessful Be Encouraged

Author:Robert Rubin

“Officials from the soccer organization FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when making their decision. Of course the toughest part for the soccer officials was taking bribes without using their hands.”

World Hands Courses Decision Cities Accepting Organization Cups Soccer Officials Host Accused World Cup Bribe Fifa

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.”

Should Art Faces Certain Goal Decision Cases Clear Information Occasions Uncertainty Consistently

Book:Next Generation Leader

Source: Next Generation Leader

“I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.”

Thinking Opportunity Games Winning Decision League

Author:Joe Torre

“I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.”

People Decision Concerned

Author:Joe Torre

“The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.”

Real Decision Company Policy Cold Authority Employee Rebel Engagement Ceo Blanket Employee Engagement Egocentric Cascade Supervisors Disenfranchised

Author:Gary Hamel

“The more a prospective customer clicks on you and your stuff, the easier it is for them to make a buying decision in your favor.”

Stuff Decision Easier Customers Favors Buying Clicks

Author:Jeffrey Gitomer

“This is the glory and miracle of grace, that God, through the Holy Spirit, is able to transform a stubborn, rebellious, and unbelieving will into a passionate, obedient, believing will without violating the integrity of the individual or diminishing the voluntary nature of one's decision to trust Christ for salvation.”

Believe Able Spirit Individual Christ Decision Grace Integrity Holy Glory Miracle Salvation Passionate Holy Spirit Stubborn Rebellious Obedient

Author:Sam Storms

“I think normally people think that they're afraid to die but I actually think people are more afraid to live. People are more afraid to make the choices that they want because they're very hard decisions to make in order to be happy. I think a lot of people are really afraid of that. It's easy to be in a band because you have a lot of things to hide behind so that's really not always living...that doesn't always constitute as living life the way you want. But at times you have to make decisions that sometimes hurt others in order to live.”

People Thinking Way Want Sometimes Hard Order Dies Choices Easy Hurt Decision Behinds Band Live Life Hard Decision

Author:Gerard Way

“Trying to be the best. Failing. Getting back up. Those characteristics are going to allow you to make great decisions. They are going to allow you to compete. They are going to allow you to achieve your best. That's the American dream.”

Trying Dream Decision Failing Achieve Characteristics Being The Best American Dream Getting Back Up

Author:Ronnie Lott

“When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.”

People Has Beens Country Lasts Difficult Hurt Decision Economy Our Country Ministers Prime Tolerate September Delay Prime Minister Indecision Propensity Detrimental Been Hurt

Author:Yoshihiko Noda

“Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.”

Should Government Decision Company Failing Succeed Should Have Federal Government Bad Decision Bailouts

Author:Matt Salmon

“I applaud President Obamas decision to begin a partial withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. However, I believe that we must go further and have a full withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops.”

Believe I Believe President Decision Combat Afghanistan President Obama Troops Withdrawal

Author:Susan Bysiewicz

“Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.”

Believe Heart Sometimes Order Decision Moral Compass Moral Compass Moral Decisions Unpopular Decisions

Author:Tabatha Coffey

“If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.”

People Ifs Shows Decision Pay Practice Threat West Unjust Iranian Pay The Price Rigidity

Author:Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

“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.”

Decision Information Keys Available Data Decision Making Economist Combining Good Decision

Author:Emily Oster

“Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.”

Children Decision Risk Concern Complicated Testing Disabled Miscarriage Disabled Children

Author:Emily Oster

“Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.”

Thinking Decision Firm Rely Decision Making Household Thinking About You

Author:Emily Oster

“Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.”

Decision Trump Decision Making Good Decision Budgeting

Author:Emily Oster

“Americans need help understanding their world now more than ever. [TV] believes it's filled its obligation to the public because it's presented both sides. But most of what we're living through now has multiple sides, and those sides, if you take the extreme oppositional views, have to be brought together for people to make a decision about how to act on the information.”

People Ifs World Needs Believe Helping Together Understanding Sides Decision Views Information Tvs Filled Extremes Obligation Multiple Both Sides Need Help

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making”

Decision Knowing Essentials Rational Decision Making Rational Decisions

Author:Jack Dangermond

“One of our jobs is to keep women working, which we do by keeping women coming to the movies. And doing that means making good, smart, often funny movies that women can identify with-with terrific dialogue we all remember and cherish, and stories that illuminate our lives and decisions and turning points.”

Mean Stories Jobs Remember Decision Our Lives Smart Dialogue Cherish Terrific Turning Points Good Smart

Author:Lynda Obst

“Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.”

Decision Design Fabric

Author:Don Yaeger

“In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.”

Winning Energy Sports Decision Situation Leader Focus Tough Crucial Tough Decisions

Author:Don Yaeger

“There is a huge set of consequences that start stacking up as you approach the end-game. And even in terms of the ending itself, it continues to break down to some very large decisions. So it's not like a ****c game ending where everything is linear and you make a choice between a few things - it really does layer in many, many different choices, up to the final moments, where it's going to be different for everyone who plays it.”

Doe Different Ends Play Moments Choices Games Term Decision Break Huge Approach Consequence Finals Layers Breaking Down Linear Different Choices Stacking

Author:Ray Muzyka

“In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.”

Decision Behavior Currents Decision Making Advertisements

Author:David Perlmutter

“All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.”

Mean Use Decision Models Tools Faults Cant Making Decisions

Author:Myron Scholes

“Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.”

Needs Decision Doctors Patient Data Treatment Doctors And Patients

Author:Ben Goldacre

“We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and our common jeopardy.”

Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

“If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unhealthy.”

Ifs Made Decision Poor Rich Healthy Excellent Mediocre Unhealthy

Author:Wallace D. Wattles

“I decided to be confident one day, and then I just was. I think it's a conscious decision. Everything in society tells you to hate yourself, but you know what? If you decide to love yourself, it's an act of revolution.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Hate Decision Love You Revolution One Day Conscious Decided What If Love Yourself Hate You Be Confident

Author:Gaby Dunn

“I have one goal with all my decision: to do whatever is needed to win today's game. I'm loyal to my players, and I stick with people because consistency builds confidence. But if I feel I have to make a change in order to win, I'll do it. I don't ask players to like my decisions, only to accept that I'm doing my job with one thing in mind - winning.”

Source: Joe Torre's ground rules for winners: 12 keys to managing team players, tough bosses, setbacks, and success

“Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.”

Long Term Decision Long Term Outcomes Short Term Good Decision

Author:Gerry Schwartz

“Follow your heart and make it your decision.”

Heart Decision Follow Your Heart

Author:Mia Hamm

“We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.”

People Country Home Found Decision Our Country Right Decision Make The Right Decision

Author:Ronald Reagan

“At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.”

Made Decision Company Ruined Cisco

Author:Sandra Lerner

“We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don't. Neurons do. We decide that this sum total driving us is a decision we have made for ourselves. But it is not.”

Made Decision Assuming Driving Free Will Neurons

Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“Every decision he made, I think everybody bought into it. Whether you understood it or not, you bought into it. Because he's a champion. He's won five of these or something like that, so you've got to trust a guy that's been here before and his view for our team.”

Thinking Made Guy Decision Views Five Team Understood Champion Championship Nba Championships

Author:Stephen Curry

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