--- title: "7 Individual Decisions Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Individual Decisions quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Individual Decisions sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdc/alfred-d-chandler-jr-83413_alternatives_the-modern-joint-stock-firm-is-the-outco_138172.png" --- > [The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-d-chandler-jr/the-modern-joint-stock-firm-is-the-outcome-of-innumerable-decisions/) [Alfred D. Chandler, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-d-chandler-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdc/alfred-d-chandler-jr-83413_alternatives_the-modern-joint-stock-firm-is-the-outco_138172.png) > [Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-rubin/any-individual-decisions-can-be-badly-thought-through-and-yet-be/) [Robert Rubin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-rubin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a55/robert-rubin-33351_be-encouraged_any-individual-decisions-can-be-badly-th_255094.jpg) > [The direction of the country isn't controlled by one person on top making decisions. It's a mass movement of people making a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-conover/the-direction-of-the-country-isn-t-controlled-by-one-person-on-top/) [Adam Conover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-conover/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19f/adam-conover-6921_country_the-direction-of-the-country-isn-t-contr_1066711.jpg) > [Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yaya-toure/sometimes-people-fail-to-see-that-individual-decisions-have-universal/) [Yaya Toure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yaya-toure/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/937/yaya-toure-19822_consequence_sometimes-people-fail-to-see-that-indivi_1397507.jpg) > [“When decision-makers look at each part of a business in isolation they usually aren’t aware of how individual decisions can add up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-watkinson/when-decision-makers-look-at-each-part-of-a-business-in-isolation/) [Matt Watkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-watkinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91c/matt-watkinson-94726_business_when-decision-makers-look-at-each-part-o_1565463.jpg) > [“In the course of the century, so many individual decisions are made that no single one of them is ever critical. Each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-friedman/in-the-course-of-the-century-so-many-individual-decisions-are-made/) [George Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-friedman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f22/george-friedman-7436_big-picture_in-the-course-of-the-century-so-many-ind_1901251.jpg) > [You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-stein/you-don-t-really-want-an-army-of-people-making-individual-decisions/) [Joel Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d15/joel-stein-12345_army_you-don-t-really-want-an-army-of-people_2711790.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/individual-decisions/#itemlist", "name": "Individual Decisions Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among alternatives were limited and the outcomes uncertain, but almost always there were choices. 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