Bad outcomes don’t just happen; they occur because…

“Avoid the anonymous “we” and “they,” because they mask personal responsibility. Things don’t just happen by themselves—they happen because specific people did or didn’t…

— Ray Dalio

“Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.”

— Stephen Richards

“The most highly successful people I have met and worked with all have a major driving force based upon specific people or God in…

— Nate Green

There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not…

— Jim Nussle

I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the school bus,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I don't have specific people. There are so many people that I admire and there's directors that I'm desperate to work with that haven't…

— Jamie Dornan

Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the recognized possibility…

— Robert Rubin

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

When you're faced with a choice, you have one of three choices that you can have. You can have those with power decide. You…

— Ray Dalio

“It’ll be decades—and maybe never—before the computer can replicate many of the things that the brain can do in terms of imagination, synthesis, and…

— Ray Dalio

“Think of every decision as a bet with a probability and a reward for being right and a probability and a penalty for being…

— Ray Dalio

“I believe that the key to success lies in knowing how to both strive for a lot and fail well. By failing well, I…

— Ray Dalio

“Slow down your thinking so you can note the criteria you are using to make your decision. 2. Write the criteria down as a principle.…

— Ray Dalio

It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is…

— Colin Greenwood

If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then…

— Jack Ma