This collection holds 220 decision making quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Albert Finney, Colin Powell and Frank Oz.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Maybe don't make it so.

Decision-making is lonely.

Impossible to see, the future is.

The only certainty is uncertainty

What is necessary is never unwise.

I'm on the verge of taking a stand.

Decision-making is very scary for me.

Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.

I have no desire to prolong uncertainty.

Design is nothing if not decision making.

Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B.

What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

Decision making is the specific executive task.

Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.

Collaborative decision-making is very poor in crises.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.

Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

I certainly don't understand Fox's decision-making process.

I think all decision making is very instinctive, in the end.

Every time you make a decision, you mess with someone's life.

Courage and confidence are what decision making is all about.

Most questions are clear when someone else has to decide them.

You're either an activist or an inactivist. I want to stop this.

The Pentagon should use data to guide financial decision-making.

So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

You have to be willing to have the decision-making follow the data.

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

They don't make you what you are, you do. You are what you choose to be.

It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.

Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.

I'd say that probably 95 per cent of batting is mental and decision-making.

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making.

Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making.

If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.

Buying involves decision-making. It's a performance activity, like sports or acting.

Defensively, I could be a lot better; my decision-making at times can be a bit poor.

When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

Every day we go over data and use science and data to drive policy and decision-making.

Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making.

One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?

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