The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

When in doubt, don’t.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

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.

I don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they’re not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations… They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

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

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.