Decision Makers Quotes

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Climate change and ozone depletion are two global issues that are different but have many connections. In the ozone depletion case, we managed to work with decision makers effectively so that an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol was achieved that essentially solved the ozone depletion problem.

I actually don't believe in governance by referendum. I believe that we have a democracy, that we elect people to make decisions.

Analysts can choose the problems that they want to study whereas the statesman’s problems are imposed on him.

I think the big thing with Philly is I have such a great relationship with all the personnel decision makers that if there ever does come a day where I am traded or something does happen, it's going to be an open conversation.

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

Who knows controversies better than me? The controversies always chase people who are active and decision makers.

I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.

What is seldom part of the vision of the anointed is a concept of ordinary people as autonomous decision makers free to reject any vision and to seek their own well-being through whatever social processes they choose. Thus, when those with the prevailing vision speak of the family—if only to defuse their adversaries’ emphasis on family values—they tend to conceive of the family as a recipient institution for government largess or guidance, rather than as a decision-making institution determining for itself how children shall be raised and with what values.

The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy.

Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision makers.

Leaders make decisions that create the future they desire.

I think, as e-commerce grows as a category, most e-commerce companies are focused on women because they are the decision makers and the consumers. When you think of e-commerce, and fashion is a big part of that, women are much more in tune with what other women are looking for online.

American foreign policy decision makers should be responsible for and accountable to Americans, not to "world opinion," or "the international community" …

Try to rally up as many people as you can with as much information as you can to try to get it to appear in front of the right people in the organization who are the decision-makers to greenlight the project.

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.'

North Koreans are irrational to some extent, but I don't think they're totally irrational. I think they watch American cable channels. I think they watch the European cable channels. I think they, their decision makers keep up more than we know. And I think they want us to think they're a little crazy.

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.

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

I want the least number of decision makers. We want to empower people to get more things done and also give permission to question orthodoxy.

The danger which troubled my husband was that war might be started not so much by the big men but by the little ones.

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.

In the U.S., while individual whites might be against racism, they still benefit from their group's control. Yes, an individual person of color can sit at the tables of power, but the overwhelming majority of decision-makers will be white. Yes, white people can have problems and face barriers, but systematic racism won't be one of them.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.