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"One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing."
"Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions."
"Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by virtue of their dominance of the private society, while the population observes quietly. So understood, democracy is a system of elite decision and public ratification, as in the United States itself. Correspondingly, popular involvement in the formation of public policy is considered a serious threat. It is not a step towards democracy; rather it constitutes a 'crisis of democracy' that must be overcome."
"If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future."
"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision."
"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."
"Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework."
"I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making."
"Only in the exceptional case, where the integrity and competence of the advisers have been thoroughly demonstrated, should the investor act upon the advice of others without understanding and approving the decision made."
"Every decision to act is an intuitive one. The challenge is to migrate from hoping it's the right choice to trusting it's the right choice."
"The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions."
"Strategic plans cause more dumb decisions than anything else in America."
"An investment decision in the common stock of a company frequently involves a whole lot of factors interacting ... the one thing that causes the most trouble is when you combine a bunch of these together, you get this lollapalooza effect."
"It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!"
"We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide"
"It is the theory that decides what can be observed."
"There is no staff. I make all the investment decisions and I do all my own analysis."
"You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act."
"Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime."
"Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry."
