I am not a good decision maker; that's one of the things I don't like about myself.
I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.
Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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.
I just try to be the same guy I've always been. Calm, collected, and being a good decision-maker and delivering the ball to the right guys.
My smartest move was joining Google. It wasn't obvious at the time that it would be a good decision. A lot of people, many of my friends, advised me against it.
Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.
But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it.
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.
Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.
Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.
You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.
After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.
People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don't work out. I won't be the first person to be divorced.
If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.
Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.
No one has ever gone astray in the journey of life for being consistent with the right decisions and actions.
The main outcomes of your life can only resemble your frequent thoughts, decisions and actions.
In my career, which has been fairly two-dimensional, people make decisions based on your persona.
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
