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Decision Quotes

Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States.

– Andrew Ross Sorkin

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.

– Charles Stanley

I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.

– Brad Dourif

I’ve made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that’s gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

– Bijou Phillips

I don’t look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

– Bess Myerson

Never make a major decision based solely on money.

– Chuck Noll

I don’t condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You’re the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.

– Cicely Tyson

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

– Arlen Specter

It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don’t work that way. There was a temptation in the early ’70s to reconsider. I decided against it.

– Bob Newhart

I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests.

– Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don’t know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.

– Carol Bartz

The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that’s required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.

– Barbara Olson

When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.

– Carlos Ghosn

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

– Alva Noto

In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn’t move as fast as I’d like it to move.

– Alphonso Jackson

When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet’s decision, it becomes the device’s decision.

– Billy Collins

My documentary ‘Split Decision’ examines Cuban-American relations, and the economic and cultural paradoxes that have shaped them since Castro’s revolution, through the lens of elite Cuban boxers forced to choose between remaining in Cuba or defecting to America.

– Brin-Jonathan Butler

The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an appropriate pseudonym, and since there’s an abundance of anagrams in the novel, the idea struck me: why not use an anagram of my name? Hence, Shawn Haigins.

– Ashwin Sanghi

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

– Andrew Young

We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence.

– Boutros Boutros-Ghali

I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.

– Carlos Ghosn

People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement.

– Cathy McMorris Rodgers

I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts’ qualifications.

– Alberto Gonzales

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That’s the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

– Antonin Scalia

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

– Amy Seimetz

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.

– Blanche Lincoln

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

– Brian Tracy

When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.

– Carlos Ghosn

I’ve always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.

– Alfred Molina

Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend.

– Anatoli Boukreev

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