“I think Mitt Romney has demonstrated repeatedly he has a penchant for - for secrecy, doesn't seem to have any interest in actually showing the American people his - his finances, decision - important decisions about his investments, refuses to come clean on his time at Bain Capital and when he was really there, and, you know, be held accountable for the outsourcing of jobs and the off-shoring of jobs and shipping jobs overseas.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantSeemsJobsInterestDecisionCleanInvestmentRefuseFinanceSecrecyRomneyImportant DecisionsShippingOutsourcing Author:Mitt Romney
“Not that that's my goal, but when you're very wealthy and very famous, you can have a lot more decisions in what you do. You have a lot more opportunity. You can maybe even not work for a few years. It puts you in a great position to make some decisions. You're not always taking every job that comes and that kind of thing.” YearsKindJobsOpportunityGoalDecisionPositionWealthyVery Famous Author:Jen Kirkman
“Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace.” PeopleIfsJobsNextGivenDecisionEmbraceUnhappyInstanceControversy Author:Gina McCarthy
“In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.” FirstsJobsDecisionPolicyIntentionInternationalFinanceBoardsDivisionArticlesReservesStaffEconomistBankingSecrecyMonetaryFederal ReserveCentral BanksMonetary PolicyCentral Banking Author:Janet Yellen
“I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.” TryingProblemTogetherJobsThreeProcessDecisionCareersTakenPiecesWeekAmountFlowProductionsFinanceCashOnly TimeInadequatePrepsCash Flow Author:Joe Johnston
“My goal was to do the best job I could in governing the state of Wisconsin, in some cases making very tough decisions to have to bring our spending in line with the resources we had at the state level.” StatesJobsGoalLinesDecisionLevelsCasesToughResourcesSpendingDo The BestGoverningBest JobWisconsinTough DecisionsWisconsin WeatherMaking Tough Decisions Author:Scott McCallum
“You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.” PeopleNeedsJobsAbilityDecisionToughBossTough Decisions Author:Charles Kennedy
“I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.” PeopleJobsOrderPeaceDecisionCareersMetsMotive Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“I absolutely made the decision that that cannot be the reason why I'm doing a film or a job. For me, it's always about the script and whether I'm doing something that I've never done before.” MadeReasonDoneJobsFilmDecisionScriptsReason Why Author:Jessica Chastain
“In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?” IfsImportantIdeasDoneJobsFunDecisionImportant ThingsCreditPursueYou ChoosePublishingSpoil Author:Leo Szilard
“I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.” ThinkingMindJobsDecisionIntenseDecision MakingAgonyMotto Author:Fred W. Friendly
“I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.” MadeJobsChoicesDecisionPlayerGroupsTeamBiggerHarderIncredibles Author:Vladimir Kramnik
“It's not my fault Snow didn't have any other options coming out of high school. If going to college gets you a career backup goaltender job, and my route gets you a thousand points and a thousand games, and compare the two contracts, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out whose decision was better.” IfsTwoSchoolJobsGamesDecisionCareersFiguresCollegeThousandHigh SchoolScientistFaultsSnowCompareContractsComing OutRoutesRocketsNhlBackupGoing To College Author:Jeremy Roenick
“I don't think we can say that all working women will get divorced - it's so dangerous to make these things emblematic of anything - but having said that, every person who has a big, important job and tries to have a family, has to make decisions every single minute.” ThinkingTryingPersonsSaidImportantBigsJobsDecisionMinutesDangerousDivorcedImportant JobsWorking Women Author:Meryl Streep
“What makes Steve [Jobs'] methodology different from everyone else's is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do. He's a minimalist.” ImportantDifferentJobsDecisionAlways BelieveMethodologyMinimalistImportant DecisionsDecisions You Make Author:John Sculley
“Despite the insanity of using whether you would want to have a beer with someone as a legitimate reason for voting for or against them, I always felt that is indicative of a massive problem in politics: It matters as much what your personality is as how smart you are or how good you are at your job. That is a huge, huge problem. A lot of people who are very smart or very good at their jobs are not people I would want to ever have a beer with - but I would want them making massive policy decisions with huge implications for the future of the planet.” PeopleWantMatterReasonProblemJobsFeltDecisionPolicyPlanetsHugePersonalitySmartVery GoodDespiteBeerInsanityVotingMassiveImplicationsVery Smart Author:Michael Schur
“In our society, real power does not happen to lie in the political system, it lies in the private economy: that’s where the decisions are made about what’s produced, how much is produced, what’s consumed, where investment takes place, who has jobs, who controls the resources, and so on and so forth. And as long as that remains the case, changes inside the political system can make some difference-I don’t want to say it’s zero-but the differences are going to be very slight.” WantLongDoeMadeRealHappensJobsPoliticalLyingDifferencesDecisionCasesEconomyResourcesRemainsInvestmentOur SocietyZeroConsumedPolitical SystemsReal Power Author:Noam Chomsky
“Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater number whose instinct is to make a deal before they make a decision.” MenTryingJobsDecisionDealsNumbersGreaterFineResponsibleInstinctCongress Book:Unbought and Unbossed Source: Unbought and Unbossed
“I really admire the job that not just coach Belichick has done but that Robert Kraft and his family have done, and the decisions that they made to let Bill do what he's capable of doing. I think it's a great illustration of a way to structure an NFL organization when you let the coach really run the thing.” ThinkingWayMadeDoneRunningJobsDecisionCapableOrganizationBillsStructureCoachesAdmireNflSuper BowlIllustration Author:Pete Carroll
“Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.” NeedsJobsWishDifficultDecisionPoliticianLuckGood LuckSchwarzeneggerUnpopular Decisions Author:Clint Eastwood