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Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign. - Essays.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right.

I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?.

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

I can bring you to the door, but you have to walk through.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.