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"Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger."
"I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like a detective, Humphrey Bogart? Do you want him to look like a blah blah blah. I didn't know, and said the theme is 'privacy' and chose the plastic coat you could see through. So knowing the theme helps you make a decision when you're not sure which way to go."
"Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel."
"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."
"Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it."
"Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven."
"Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough."
"We seem to have lost the wisdom of the indigenous people, which dictated that in any major decision, the first consideration was 'How will this decision we're making today affect our people in the future? These days, decisions are made based on the bottom line."
"The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself."
"Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions."
"The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called — which only a nerd would call — a “regret minimization framework.” So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, “Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.”"
"Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get."
"The most important thing that I can share with you is the personal knowledge that decisions are not irrevocable, that choices do come back, sometimes in different forms and in different ways, but they can be remade."
"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."
"A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself."
"Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make."
"Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life."
"All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind."
"Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision."
"Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts"
