Quotes About Trade-offs

If they employ men to make music, then these men must abandon their work of ploughing, planting, and cultivation.

There's this idea that you can have it all, but in my opinion, you can't - not if you're a perfectionist.

what you compromise to keep, you lose.

For everything you have missed you have gained something else, and for everything you gain you lose something else.

When physicians are under time pressure, they are apparently more inclined to choose a quick-fix solution, despite its serious downsides.

predictive judgments that provide input—for instance, how a candidate will perform in her first year, how the stock market will respond to a given strategic move, or how quickly the epidemic will spread if left unchecked. But the final decisions entail trade-offs between the pros and cons of various options, and these trade-offs are resolved by evaluative judgments.

Losses are weighted about twice as much as gains in several contexts:

All of us make compromises in life. - Olivia Watson

You can do anything, but not everything.

It is, after all, hard to imagine placing a full-time teaching career atop a full-time artmaking career without something going awry in the process. As the old proverb cautions: if you chase two rabbits, you catch neither.

Successful program management is about choosing a right pathway and owning the advantages and disadvantages of the chosen path, because in the real world the optimal or perfect path doesn't exist.

To truly understand and appreciate music, you need to understand economics.

Extreme success results from an extreme personality and comes at the cost of many other things.

Life is full of trade-offs. At different phrases in your life, you're able to do certain things that you can't do at other phases. And you make choices.

There are downsides to a lot of things. There are downsides to flying - people die every now and then. Do you want to stop all air flights? There are downsides to pharma; sometimes they're misused. Do you want to stop using pills?

Everything in life has its price, and often the heaviest prices we pay are not in terms of money.

If you want to do well you have to sacrifice certain things.

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

This, then, is our candidate replicator. But a candidate should be regarded as an actual replicator only if it possesses some minimum degree of longevity/fecundity/fidelity (there may be trade-offs among the three).

The core premise of economic theory is that people choose by optimizing.

With any method of attaining great wealth, there is a price, and price is not always measured in money

Quick, cheap, or good, pick two.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.