Quotes with decisions

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  • T. Boone Pickens Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready- Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire.
    T. Boone Pickens
    American business magnate and financier (1928 - )
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  • Brent Scowcroft But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Barney Frank But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.
    Source: The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Barney Frank Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Federal Reserve. Not to mention, the American people who look to, and trust, the data the government releases on our nation's unemployment, state of our economy, and health insurance coverage.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bill James Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Bev Perdue Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Jose Manuel Barroso Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.
    Source: Democracy could have saved Europe from the single currency (2015)
    Jose Manuel Barroso
    Portuguese politician (1956 - )
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Bob Barr Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • C. Robert Kehler Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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  • Ben Horowitz Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • C. Wright Mills Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bill Dedman FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein For business, government, and education, the lesson is clear: People ought to be relying far more on objective information and far less on interviews. They might even want to think about scaling back or cancelling interviews altogether. They'll save a lot of time - and make better decisions.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bill Belichick Game management, game decisions, adjustments, seeing things during games - it's all important.
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  • Caitlin Doughty Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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