Quotes About Options

BATNA—your Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement?

Having recognized that a choice needs to be made, you can now turn to the full range of possibilities you should consider. These might be versions of the options already identified.

I find that most teams consider three to five possibilities in depth. On one aspect of this question, I am adamant: the team must produce more than one possibility. Otherwise, it never really started the strategy-making process because it didn't see itself as facing a choice. Analyzing a single possibility is not conducive to producing optimal action—or, in fact, any action at all.

You can overintellectualize these Greek letters," Pflug reflected, referring to the alphas, betas, and gammas in the option trader's argot. "One Greek word that ought to be in there is hubris.

Svakoga dana", re?e, "nudi vam se izbor ho?ete li i?i ovim ili onim putem. Možete se ljutiti ili ne morate. Možete biti pohlepni i ne morate. Možete nekoga mrziti i ne morate. Možete birati ho?ete li previše jesti ili ne?ete, ho?ete li pretjerati u vo?enju ljubavi ili ne?ete. Uvijek postoji izbor.

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.

If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.

Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.

Self-awareness and discipline are relevant to the task of generating for yourself the freedom to respond with a nondefensive defense when the attack is personal, and with an expanded set of options when it is not.

Maybe one reason so many people have so many problems is that there are so many other people with so many solutions. (Love on a Gunboat)

We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don't spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options.

It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

There is always another way, make sure you look in all directions before deciding to give up

I use to tell people what to do, but with age I have learned to let them consider the options, if they look hard enough they will always find some few options.

Success and failure are options equally available to all, the dividing line is your choices and opportunities harnessed or missed.

Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.

Options abound world over, Options to choose from and be the best.

Success can eliminate as many options as failure

Life is made up of different avenues. Everything can happen in one of several ways, according to different musical scores and parallel logics. Each of these parallel logics is consistent and coherent on its own terms, perfect in itself, indifferent to all the others.

I have a choice. That's why I'm still here.

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they're more powerful than most things.

Equality makes way for an increased number of free, considered choices, and an increased number of people with access to them. But choice itself isn't the same as equality...

When you do accept the responsibility for an outcome, you should expect to be held accountable for it. When you make a mistake (as we all do) or an error in judgment, admit it honestly and try to offer options.

There is no such thing as a best solution, be it a tool, a language, or an operating system.