Quotes on Decision-making and Valuation

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted

Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American theoretical physicist

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves

Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919, Scottish industrialist

Uncertainty is not a result of ignorance or the partiality of human knowledge, but is a characteristic of the world itself

M. Taylor in The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture, 2001

Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred

William of Ockham 1285–1349, English Franciscan friar and philosopher, from Ockham, a small village in Surrey

For every complex problem there is a simple solution that is wrong

G.B. Shaw 1856-1950, Irish critic and poet

He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

Plutarchus 50-120, Greek philosopher

Whatever you do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832, German poet, novelist and dramatist

However good our futures research may be, we shall never be able to escape from the ultimate dilemma that all our knowledge is about the past, and all our decisions are about the future

Ian Wilson, American scenario planning expert and strategy consultant

Do not count your chicken before they stopped breeding

Aesopues 550BC, Thracian poet

Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them

Warren Buffet 1930-, American Investment Entrepreneur

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads: One path leads to despair and hopelessness, and the other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly

Woody Allen 1935-, American author, director, producer and writer

Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous

Peter F. Drucker 1909-2005, American management guru

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

Edward de Bono 1933-, Thinking consultant and originator of the Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832, German writer, poet, humanist, and scientist

Opportunities multiply as they are seized

Sun Tzu  c. 544 – 496 BC, ancient Chinese military strategist