Timely Decision Making Quotes

Resolution can be in any form - S4A, SDR or restructuring - but we need an enabling environment where bankers feel comfortable to take decisions and where they also feel obliged to implement decisions in a timely manner.

There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

He does not however postpone making decisions.

Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.

A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.

Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.

Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.

Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don't jump on something right away, it's like a bird flying by-it flies off.

I think that we should not delay for the sake of delay, but delay until questions are answered.

The amount of information, the amount of incoming that any administration has to deal with today and respond to much more rapidly than ever before, that makes it different.