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Quotes About Decision Making

The best quotes on decision making from investors, founders, and strategic thinkers. Good decisions compound over a lifetime; the frameworks you use to decide determine the life you build.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Peter Drucker

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Some decisions are consequential and irreversible — one-way doors — and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation.

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.

The best decision-makers are those who have the fewest regrets.

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.

Rita Mae Brown

Speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study.

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