I've stammered all my life, and it's FAIR to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me MAKE some decisions that I'm SURE I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this AFFLICTION.

Sometimes you wake up the NEXT morning after making a lot of bad decisions and have this nonchalant REACTION LIKE, 'These THINGS Happen' - what can I SAY?

A director MAKES 100 DECISIONS an hour. STUDENTS ask me how you KNOW how to make the RIGHT decision, and I say to them, 'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a director.'

Such decisions will be FAR REACHING and difficult. But you NEVER lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the FUTURE.

Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection. Rather, the DECISIONS we MAKE every DAY as CITIZENS, consumers, and investors guide technological progress.

The 9/11 COMMISSION strongly recommends that the NATIONAL Intelligence Director be fully in control of the BUDGET, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the CLOUT to MAKE decisions.

Too MANY problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where DECISIONS are made BASED on power rather than intelligence.

Aggression is the most COMMON behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that INFLUENCES all DECISIONS and ACTIONS.

All PARENTS hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are OBEDIENT and RESPONSIBLE bring to their parents unending pride and SATISFACTION.

Remember that your REPUTATION is everything. You build your PERSONAL brand through everything you do, whether BIG ACTIONS or small decisions, and that brand will stay with you throughout your career.

It is only in our DECISIONS that we are IMPORTANT.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you GET off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot MAKE PROGRESS WITHOUT making decisions.

The hardest DECISIONS in life are not between GOOD and bad or RIGHT and wrong, but between TWO goods or two rights.