“When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off.” GovernmentDecisionInfluenceGainsAdvantageFactorsConsumersDecision MakingEfficiencyFederal GovernmentWeighing Author:Gina McCarthy
“Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused.” PeopleKnowsBelieveSelfHardGovernmentCommunityDecisionLeaderHard WorkIntegrityGainsCarefulCorePlanningPartisanshipCareful Planning Author:Linda Lingle
“As Iraqi forces gain experience and the political process advances, we will be able to decrease our troop level in Iraq without losing our capability to defeat the terrorists. These decisions about troop levels will be driven by the conditions on the ground in Iraq and the good judgment of our commanders, not by artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington.” AblePoliticalForceProcessDecisionLevelsConditionsPoliticianJudgmentLosingGainsDefeatIraqDrivenTerroristCapabilityArtificialCommandersDecreaseGood JudgmentTimetables Author:George W. Bush
“The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.” LongValuesTermDecisionSacrificePerspectiveGainsPursuitGenuineLong TermRoutineArtificialShort TermDominance Author:Al Gore
“If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.” IfsMindDecisionGainsTrialsFirmEssaysApprenticeship Book:Complete Essays Source: Complete Essays
“Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all conflicts or to gain all ends. Choices have to be made. Different aspects of the public good should be stressed in different places. To achieve variety in land use patterns, there should also be a variety of relationships between the professions, not an institutionalized decision-making tree. Relationships between the constructive professions should, therefore, be deconstructed.” ShouldHumansMadeDifferentEndsUseChoicesDecisionAnimalTreeLandAchieveConflictDiversityGainsAspectPatternsProfessionVarietyDesignerDecision MakingResolveConstructiveStressedDifferent PlaceHabitatBiodiversityPlannersPublic GoodLand Use Author:Tom Turner
“It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.” ThinkingLossDecisionSituationSeeingMinutesExerciseTenIntellectualGainsRationalBridgesBeing The BestCalculationsRatiosWeighingNew Situations Author:Warren Buffett
“I had made what I believe was one of the more valuable decisions of my business life. This was to confine all efforts solely to making major gains in the long-run.” BelieveLongMadeRunningI BelieveDecisionEffortMajorsGainsInvestingValuableLong RunsBusiness Life Author:Philip Arthur Fisher
“We continually make decisions in private which affect the commonweal, as the ecologists (to take but one example) have shown us. When I keep my house warmer than it needs to be, I consume fuel which might help someone else keep warm, or keep a job. When the food I eat is high on the protein chain I contribute to a maldistribution of protein around the world. When I teach my children to be primarily concerned with private gain, I diminish the ranks of public leadership in the rising generation.” WorldNeedsChildrenHelpingMightJobsHouseDecisionTeachGenerationsExampleGainsConcernedEnvironmentalWarmChainsAround The WorldMy ChildrenRisingFuelSustainabilityDiminishProtein Author:Parker J. Palmer
“Sometimes, when a person gains a lot of success at a very young age, they become targets, and it's really easy to follow the crowds and not make independent decisions based on truly how you feel.” FeelsPersonsSometimesAgeYoungEasyDecisionGainsIndependentCrowdsTargetYoung AgeHow You Feel Author:Dane Cook
“What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions.” InspirationalDecisionSecretGainsSecret To SuccessRight DecisionWrong Decision Author:Abdul Kalam
“When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.” PeopleThinkingTermLossDecisionGainsOutcomesShort TermGains And Losses Author:Daniel Kahneman
“The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.” DecisionCompanyGainsAdvantageConsistentlyBlankCompetitive Advantage Book:The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company Source: The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
“Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.” ThinkingSaidAbilityDecisionLessonsReflectionGainsCombinationPlusMore TimeGood Decision Author:Brian Tracy
“At least when Israel releases terrorists to gain the freedom of one of its soldiers, the country’s leaders have the grace to treat the decision as a regrettable action made out of necessity and nothing to celebrate.” MadeCountryActionDecisionLeaderGraceGainsTreatsSoldierIsraelTerroristCelebrateRelease Author:Jonathan S. Tobin
“By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this whole Black Lives Matter movement comes from, the history of resistance, the history of how politicians have used criminality over the decades for a particular political gain. It's to give people an understanding of it so they can make their own decisions about how they want to be in the world.” PeopleWorldWantGivingEndsMatterWholePoliticalUsedUnderstandingBlackDecisionMovementParticularPoliticianGainsPrisonComplexesDecadesResistanceDocumentariesBlack Lives MatterCriminalityBlack Lives Author:Ava DuVernay
“When you start with why, which decision you make becomes very easy. It is so hard to do when you may suffer a short term loss or you may lose out on some short term gain. But in the long run it's way more powerful and way more stable.” WayMayLongHardRunningSufferingEasyTermLosesLossDecisionPowerfulGainsStableLong RunsShort TermDecisions You Make Author:Simon Sinek
“The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital from static to more dynamic situations, the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth of the economy.” GrowthDecisionEconomyRiskTaxesGainsFlowDifficultyInvestmentEaseVentureObtainingMobilityCapital GainsNew VenturesCapital Gains Tax Author:John F. Kennedy
“If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.” IfsGivingMatterNextUnderstandingDecisionGainsMeetingsDiscussionAgreementProposeDisagreement Author:Alfred P. Sloan
“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.” LifeInspirationalMatterDreamMotivationalSuccessGoalDecisionBusinessHalfCareersAchieveHabitVictoryGainsTasksBoringConvincedSettingSettingsYour DreamsWellnessEach DaySetting GoalsTediousParadesChoresAchieving Your Dreams Author:Og Mandino
“It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.” ShouldRealSometimesLosesDecisionImpossibleLike YouGainsDisasterReal LifeNecksEverlasting Author:Marian Keyes