Top 100 Decision-Making Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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2. “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.”

— Steve Jobs

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3. “When you make a choice, you change the future.”

— Deepak Chopra

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4. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t change it.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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5. “When you know what’s most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. Most people, though, are unclear about what’s most important in their lives, and thus decision making becomes a form of internal torture.”

— Tony Robbins

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

— George S. Patton Jr.

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7. “It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.”

— Tony Robbins

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8. “Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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9. “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

— Warren Buffett

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10. “What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.”

— Warren Buffett

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11. “Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Choices Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

12. “I don’t believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.”

— Ratan Tata

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13. “Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’”

— Marcus Aurelius

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14. “Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.”

— Michael Jordan

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15. “I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.”

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

16. “Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.”

— Charlie Munger

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17. “You always have a choice.”

— Michelle Hodkin

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18. “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

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19. “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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20. “And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.”

— Paulo Coelho

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21. “You can’t get different results by doing things the same way.”

— Richard Moran

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22. “Use wisely your power of choice.”

— Og Mandino

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23. “You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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24. “Do it or don’t do it – you will regret both.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

25. “Think of the solution, not the problem.”

— Terry Goodkind

Also featured in: Positive Thinking Quotes

26. “The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: ‘What is the worst that could happen?’”

— Tim Ferriss

Also featured in: Overcoming Fear Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

27. “You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.”

— Warren Buffett

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28. “Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

29. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

— Colin Powell

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30. “Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

— Stephen R. Covey

31. “A rational man is guided by his thinking – by a process of Reason – not by his feelings and desires.”

— Ayn Rand

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32. “And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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33. “Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act.”

— William Shockley

34. “If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.”

— Jeff Bezos

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35. “Never risk what you have and need for what we don’t have and don’t need.”

— Warren Buffett

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36. “We can act instead of being acted upon.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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37. “Time goes on. So whatever you’re going to do, do it. Do it now. Don’t wait.”

— Robert De Niro

Also featured in: Time Management Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes, Procrastination Quotes

38. “The biggest risk of all is not taking one.”

— Mellody Hobson

Also featured in: Overcoming Fear Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

39. “It’s not what happens, it’s what you do that determines your future.”

— Jim Rohn

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40. “Discipline is a choice. It’s simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.”

— Rory Vaden

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41. “The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.”

— Randy Pausch

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42. “When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past.”

— Thomas S. Monson

43. “If it isn’t a clear yes, then it’s a clear no.”

— Greg McKeown

44. “You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.”

— Colin Powell

Also featured in: Choices Quotes

45. “The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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46. “There’s an opportunity cost to everything.”

— Julie B. Beck

47. “Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.”

— Joseph M. Juran

48. “This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.”

— Terry Pratchett

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49. “To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.”

— Nick Vujicic

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50. “Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.”

— Russell L. Ackoff