Quotes on Decisiveness

Business is dependent upon action. It cannot go forward by hesitation. Those in executive positions must fortify themselves with facts and accept responsibility for decisions based upon them. Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.Harry Hopf

• leadership
• decisiveness
• initiative

This is what I found out about religion: it gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.Dwight Eisenhower

• leadership
• religion
• decisiveness

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.Charles Hole

• decisiveness

Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.Edward Kock

• mistakes
• decisiveness

Good leadership involves responsibility to the welfare of the group, which means that some people will get angry at your actions and decisions. It's inevitable, if you're honorable. Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity: you'll avoid the tough decisions, you'll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted, and you'll avoid offering differential rewards based on differential performance because some people might get upset. Ironically, by procrastinating on the difficult choices, by trying not to get anyone mad, and by treating everyone equally "nicely" regardless of their contributions, you'll simply ensure that the only people you'll wind up angering are the most creative and productive people in the organization.Colin Powell

• leadership
• management
• decisiveness

Procrastination in the name of reducing risk actually increases risk.Colin Powell

• risk
• decisiveness
• procrastination

Many people go through life making nothing but "if" decisions. These are not decisions for success but preparations for failure.Zig Ziglar

• decisiveness

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.Napoleon Bonaparte

• decisiveness

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.George Patton

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• decisiveness