No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

—Isaac Asimov

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Every great decision creates ripples — like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforeseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

—Benjamin Disraeli

Ever notice that “what the hell” is always the right decision.

—Marilyn Monroe

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.

—Lyndon Baines Johnson

The more urgent the need for a decision, the less apparent becomes the identity of the decision-maker.

—Murphy’s Eighteenth Law

What is living about? It is the decisions you must make between two rights, hard and costly decisions because always you can do one right thing, but sometimes not two.

—Willa Gibbs

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone’s work assignment and responsibility.

—Peter F. Drucker

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

—Arthur W. Radford

You’ll never have all the information you need to make a decision. If you did, it would be a foregone conclusion, not a decision.

—David Mahoney Jr

In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

—Cooke’s Law