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Today, he’s remembered for his zany quotes, but he was also one of the best baseball players who ever lived. This New York Yankee was a three-time American League MVP, and was voted to the All-Star team an incredible eighteen times. His name? Yogi Berra.

Yogi said, "It ain’t over till it’s over." And "If you don’t go to their funeral, they won’t go to yours." Berra also had this advice about decision-making. He said, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." And he was right. So if you’re facing a decision, remember good old Yogi Berra, and make that decision sooner rather than later. Otherwise, the fork in your road becomes a dead end.

If It's Time to Make a Decision, Decide!

On Decision-Making…

"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.’
Henri Frédéric Amiel

"Not to decide is to decide."
Harvey Cox

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
Napoleon Bonaparte

"You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own."
Rupert Murdoch

"In critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action."
Winston Churchill

Getting the Facts

"There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one’s decisions as long as possible and until all the facts that we need to be potent at the moment are revealed."
Winston Churchill

"There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your employees."
Randall Jacobs

Controls must be timely, simple, and focused on action. The information must have a purpose.
Peter Drucker

"Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course."
Adrian Cadbury

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
Colin Powell

And Finally . . .

"To get the facts first is often impossible. Those who make effective decisions must start with informed opinions."
Peter Drucker

"Discussion is the most excellent means to avoid decision."
Fulton J. Sheen

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you do is the right thing; the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt

"You life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision."
Anthony Robbins

"It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Resolve and thou art free."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Decision-making is the specific executive task."
Peter Drucker

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

This page was written and compiled by Criswell Freeman, Psy.D

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