Rene Descartes Quotes

You forgot my first lesson: don't hesitate.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

I make decisions quickly.

I think possibly what people working for one hate the most is indecision. Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision. The most important thing I can do is try and make myself very clearly understood.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

Once you decide to do something, and you're pretty sure you're right, then you gotta go ahead and do it. Because if you piddle around, somebody else will beat you to it.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

The key to leadership is having a vision, and being strong enough to say no and not try to please everybody. Thats a recipe for failure. Leadership is practiced through attitude and actions, rather than words and memos.

Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots.

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.

In doubtful matters boldness is everything.

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.

I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.