Decisions Quotes

I really want to clear my life so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Focus on the big decisions. "As a senior executive, what do you really get paid to do?" he asks. "You get paid to make a small number of high-quality decisions. Your job is not to make thousands of decisions every day.

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

As organizations get larger, there seems to be a tendency to use the heavy-weight Type 1 decision-making process on most decisions, including many Type 2 decisions. The end result of this is slowness, unthoughtful risk aversion, failure to experiment sufficiently, and consequently diminished invention. We'll have to figure out how to fight that tendency.

You collect as much data as you can, you immerse yourself in that data but then you make the decision with your heart.

"You've worn me down" is an awful decision-making process. It's slow and de-energizing. Go for quick escalation instead - it's better.

We will make bold rather than timid investment decisions where we see a sufficient probability of gaining market leadership advantages.

Math-based decisions command wide agreement, whereas judgment-based decisions are rightly debated and often controversial,at least until put into practice and demonstrated.

I'll debate something for an hour or a day or a week. And I'll say, "You know what? I really disagree with this, but you have more ground truth than I do. We're going to do it your way. And I promise I will never tell you I told you so."

I knew that if I failed, I wouldn't regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.

Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.

Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.

If I have three good decisions a day, that's enough.

All my best decisions in business and in life have been made with heart, intuition, and guts, not analysis. When you can make a decision with analysis, you should do so, but it turns out in life that your most important decisions are always made with instinct, intuition, taste, and heart, and that's what we'll do with this Day One Fund too.

There are one-way doors and two-way doors. Most decisions are two-way doors.

Openness, respect, integrity - these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.

One can remain more sure-footed by taking small steps, but perhaps achieve greater speed by taking bigger steps. Of course, one also runs the risk of setting out in a completely erroneous direction. Surely the important thing isn't the length of our steps, but that the objective is clear.