Quotes About Trade-offs

If you want to be successful as a person and as a leader, you must make choices. You must prioritize. You cannot have it all. No one can.

You don't have to be great to become a person of courage. You just need to want to reach your potential and to be willing to trade what seems good in the moment for what's best for your potential. That's something you can do regardless of your level of natural talent.

Occasionally in this life, we must give up or lose the things that we want in order to gain the things we really need.

Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once.

My life is either/or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium step.' 'Sounds like a boring life.' 'I hope it lasts forever,' she said.

When you make list of pros and cons, realize that some of those cons are what make many of the pros possible.

Its all about putting things in perspective and knowing that you have to make little sacrifices.

There's that old saying: Fast, cheap, and good, you get to pick two. The two you just picked are fast and good. Cheap has just left the building.

You can do anything, but not everything.

Life is full of tough choices between less-than-perfect alternatives.

putting in the necessary thinking work and refusing to accept the unattractive trade-offs, we can unleash our ability to build new and better models and create value for the world.

Managers at lower levels lack the perspective and the confidence to maintain a strategy. There will be constant pressures to compromise, relax trade-offs, and emulate rivals. One of the leader's jobs is to teach others in the organization about strategy—and to say no. Strategy

MOST COMPANIES OWE THEIR INITIAL success to a unique strategic position involving clear trade-offs. Activities once were aligned with that position.

Most economic fallacies derive - from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

There is no free lunch.

Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.

You can feed your wallet, or you can feed your soul, but you seldom can do both at the same time.

Our options are limited. Do we want to be wet tonight or hungry tomorrow?

My research and my experiences tell me that life is less about trading off happiness now for happiness later (and vice versa) and more about trading off pleasure and purpose at different rates at different times.

The hardest thing about winning is trying to do so without losing something of greater importance.