"Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind."
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"Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable."
"I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people."
"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."
"Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make."
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions."
"As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports."
"It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life."
"You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future"
"You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question."
"It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts."
"All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand"
"Your destiny is determined by your decisions."
"Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it."
"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible."
"Your decision to walk creates the path ahead"
"Your current situation does not determine your future. Your future is determined by your decision to succeed."
"I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility."
"A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted."
"Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war."