The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of…

The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices…

— Alfred D. Chandler, Jr

Asking for advice is an act of humility… The act alone says, "I need you." The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into…

— Dennis Bakke

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder…

— Ricardo Sanchez

When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding…

— Nafis Sadik

The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent…

— Peter Drucker

Islamist-jihadist terrorism-a plague that has spread to almost every corner of the world-creates painful dilemmas for the peoples and decision makers who confront it.…

— Boaz Ganor

There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.

— Bruce Cockburn

Fifty-fifty marriages are an impossibility. They do not work. They cannot work. In marriage someone has to be the final decision maker. Someone has…

— Wayne Mack

I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the…

— Bronwyn Bishop

Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be eagerly followed.…

— Paul Samuelson

How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the…

— Barack Obama

Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices…

— Melinda Gates

Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.

— Ellen DeGeneres

I think my brother is good coach,because he's Jim. He's a good decision maker. He makes good judgments. He's got a vision. He's got…

— John Harbaugh

Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future…

— James Surowiecki