Decision Outcomes Quotes

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

All entrepreneurs make decisions. Some will go right, and some will not go that right.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

Be careful what you choose: You may get it.

The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead.

You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.

On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions that shape your life.

Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and so the redemption they're looking for is of a more lasting kind. They are one another's peers; who else can really judge them?

Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.

Life is about choices, and the grace - or lack thereof - with which you execute them is a make-or-break moment in anyone's life.

It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

All managers make decisions, and sometimes they are right, and sometimes people say they are wrong.

Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.

Making decisions quickly isn't for everyone, and I've had my disasters, but overall, it works for me.

So consider your options, make your choice and call me home.

Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered.

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that's fine; learn from it & don't make it again.