Never make a decision until you have to.

Don't make any decision for now; don't make permanent decisions on where you are now. Think about you in the future; don't make temporary decisions to soothe or cater for temporary needs or present purchase.

People make bad decisions because they felt they had to decide.
It would have been wiser to do nothing.

The risk of making a decision that's wrong is so enormous that sometimes it just crushes people so that they can't make any decision at all because they're afraid of making the wrong decision. And that's exactly what McClellan's problem was.

Remember, decisions don’t have to be made perfectly. We don’t have to be perfect. We don’t even have to be nearly perfect. We can just be who we are. We can make mistakes in our choices. We’re not so fragile we can’t handle making a mistake. It’s no big deal! It’s part of living. We can learn from our mistakes, or we can simply make another decision.

never say yes to something important without thinking it over for a day.

It's a bad habit, I know, but I believe that you shouldn't do anything in life until you're ready. Half of life's heartaches come from decisions made in a hurry. One should make haste slowly.

I would rather have a wrong decision made than no decision at all.

Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.

We think that by avoiding decisions now, we keep all of our options open for later. But not making choices is a choice all the same.

You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Tut, man, decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Good decision-making is like playing chess and you must avoid making hasty decisions without thinking of how that particular decision will impact on different aspects of your work and organization. The worst kind of decision-making is to decide to delay a difficult decision until later or to pass it to someone else to have to make. You will never excel and be valued by your colleagues if you get into these habits of procrastination and passing responsibility to others.