David Tepper Quotes

If you can get rid of the emotion and concentrate on the problem, you can solve the problem.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find myself regurgitating almost unconsciously.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person.

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

The intelligence community is intended to base its intelligence estimates on facts and analysis—not philosophy and conviction.

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.

We should follow the facts wherever they lead us.

I personally, generally, don't really feel much emotion if there's some problem and I'm actively solving it.

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

No disrespect, but I don't make decisions based on opinions.

I'm always quite rational.

I don't try to make any decision of the impulse of my heart. I think things through and go from there.

Those who are close to me know that I am a person who likes to analyse everything before making a decision.

Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn't any situation so bad that it won't become a lot better when you think rationally - and spiritually - about it. God gives you the ability to think rationally about things by filling you with peace and faith.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

A calm mind helps our human intelligence to assess the situation realistically.

Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational

You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.