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“Investors frequently benefit from making decisions with less than perfect knowledge and are well rewarded for bearing the risk of uncertainty. The time other investors spend delving into the last unanswered detail may cost them the chance to buy into situations at prices so low they offer a margin of safety despite the incomplete information”

“It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.”

May Long Important Term Decision Streets Wall Long Term Investors Quarters Ceo Lenses Initials Exit Rushing Optimal

Author:Roelof Botha

“The ablest and most effective leaders do not hold to a single style; they may be highly supportive in personal relations when that is needed, yet capable of a quick, authoritative decision when the situation requires it.”

May Decision Situation Leader Style Needed Capable Relation Supportive

Author:John W. Gardner

“The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.”

Feels May Real Life Is Choices Lines Decision Our Lives Active Leisure Dividing

Author:Raymond Williams

“People make decisions that may have one intent and yet are somehow perverted into something else. And sometimes it's because of design. Sometimes it's because of happenstance. But very often, it's mysterious to them.”

People May Sometimes Decision Design Mysterious Happenstance

Author:Atom Egoyan

“Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you'd expect entrepreneurs who've been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or at least have an equal chance at success. But in fact the opposite may be true. A number of venture capitalists I've spoken with have said that too many "old guard" entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it's hurting their startups.”

May Said Enough Facts Hurt Chance Decision Numbers Equal Advantage Opposites Entrepreneur Being True Capitalist Venture Ups & Downs Newcomers Business Decisions Venture Capitalists

Author:Michael Arrington

“It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.”

May Long Term Decision Effects Financial Credit Debt Cards Consumers Long Term Imperatives Credit Card Bankruptcy Pitfalls Credit Card Debt

Author:Daniel Kahikina Akaka

“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.”

People Ifs Years May Persons Made Today Easy Decision Pieces Keys Calling Majors Hundred Years Ago Makers Satisfying Multiple Decision Makers

Author:Brian Tracy

“If you don't vote, then you may be leaving the decisions up to someone dumber than you.”

Ifs May Decision Vote Leaving

Author:Jesse Ventura

“I suspect that over time we will rely increasingly, or take notice at least increasingly, on international and foreign courts in examining domestic issues. [Doing so] may not only enrich our own country's decisions, I think it may create that all important good impression.”

Thinking May Important Country Decision Issues Court International Impression Rely Suspects Examining

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.”

May Art Reality Order Decision Numbers Amount Aspect Accounts Mere Practicals Literacy Variables Numeracy

Book:Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent

Source: Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent

“Being kind doesn't mean being soft or a wuss. Kindness is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of confidence. If you have developed a reputation for kindness and consideration, then even the most unpleasant decisions will go down easier because everyone will understand why you are doing what you are doing. They will realize that your decision must be necessary, and is not arbitrary or without empathy. As the old saying puts it, 'To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.'”

Ifs World Kind May Mean Persons Realizing Decision Kindness Easier Empathy Weakness Reputation Consideration Be Kind Arbitrary Old Saying

Author:Colin Powell