Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't read more

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, read more

We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive read more

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

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

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

Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. read more

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.