1. "In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker."
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Quote by Woody Allen
2. "What is the role of the supervisor in the staff meeting—a leader, observer, expediter, questioner, decision-maker? The answer, of course, is all of them. Please"
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Andrew S. Grove, High Output Management
3. "On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker."
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Robert K. Greenleaf, Servant As Leader
4. "What is the role of the supervisor in the staff meeting—a leader, observer, expediter, questioner, decision-maker? The answer, of course, is all of them. Please note that lecturer is not listed. A"
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Andrew S. Grove, High Output Management
5. "The decision maker in the brain has decided that the overt expression of unbridled rage would ruin the person’s life, and to prevent that from happening, it automatically initiates physical symptoms in the body without consulting the conscious, rational mind."
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John E. Sarno, The Divided Mind
6. "Robert Dahl’s assessment of the Court’s role in the political system is from his article Decision-Making in a Democracy: The Supreme Court as a National Policy-Maker, Journal of Public Law 6 (1957) 279–95."
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Linda Greenhouse, The U.S. Supreme Court:A Very Short Introduction
7. "The promise of constancy, once given, binds its maker for as long as the power to stand by the decision survives and the understanding of the issue has not changed so fundamentally as to render the commitment obsolete.…."
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Linda Greenhouse, The U.S. Supreme Court:A Very Short Introduction
8. "I made the only decision I ever knew how to make,' Truman famously asserted in one of his carefully scripted reminiscences. What does that mean, exactly? Did Truman see himself as a professional decision-maker with a narrow specialty, the choice between destroying and not destroying Japanese cities?"
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James K. Morrow, Shambling Towards Hiroshima
9. "Maker—their word for worm,"
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Frank Herbert, Dune
10. "The Shadow-maker shapes forever."
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Quote by Lafcadio Hearn