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  • "Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune."
    Elias Canetti (1905–1994), British philosopher and writer
    Source: “1980,” The Secret Heart of the Clock: Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments 1973-1985 (1991)
  • "A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted."
    Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001), US political scientist and economist
    Source: Administrative Behavior (1947)
  • "Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity."
    Geraldine Laybourne (1947–), US chairman of Oxygen Media
    Source: Quoted in “Next Stop—The 21st Century,” Fast Company (Lucy McCauley, 1999)
  • "The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take."
    C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993), British political scientist and author
    Source: Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress (1958)
  • "Good decisions come from wisdom. Wisdom comes from experience. Experience comes from bad decisions."
    Anonymous
    Source: Forbes (August 10, 1987)
  • "There is always a multitude of reasons both in favour of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundreths of them."
    Mark Rutherford (1831–1913), British novelist
    Source: More Pages from a Journal (1910)
  • "Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake."
    Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005), US management consultant and academic
    Source: Classic Drucker (2006)
  • "What is important is not the decision itself but rather how committed and informed people are. The best decisions can be bungled just as the worst decisions can work just fine."
    William Ouchi (1943–), US writer
    Source: Theory Z: How American Business Can Meet the Japanese Challenge (1981)
  • "A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards."
    Karl Kraus (1874–1936), Austrian writer
    Source: Half Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths (1990)
  • "A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven’t truly decided."
    Anthony Robbins (1960–), US motivational writer and speaker
    Source: Awaken the Giant Within (1992)
  • "As prime minister you face a decision every hour which comes down to one question-do you want to cut your throat or slit your wrists?"
    Anonymous
    Comment by a senior advisor to Tony Blair.
    Source: Quoted in the Independent (London) (September 4, 2009)

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