Quotes About Trade-offs

The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

It takes time to develop real competitive advantage, to understand the value you create, to achieve tailoring, trade-offs, and fit. If you grasp the role of continuity in strategy, it will change your thinking about change itself. Paradoxically, continuity of strategy improves an organization's ability to adapt and to innovate.

We do not make sacrifices, but we do make bargains. Pay attention to the difference. One path leads to a simple death, and the other to a complicated life.

I think everything has its own pros and cons.

I know that there's pros and cons to everything.

It turns out that in any system, of these three characteristics—open, fast, stable—you can have only two.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

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 was no undoing the bad without losing the good. That was the trick of it all.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.

I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.

Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.

Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

Middle-class Americans really don't want to hear about sacrifices or trade-offs - except as flattering descriptions about how ready we, as a people, are, or used to be, to accept them.

I was missing out on public school and going to the football games, prom or homecomings. But I've been to three World Championships... so I think it's like a win-win.

All positive traits, states, and experiences have costs that at high levels may begin to outweigh their benefits.

Commenting source code gives you the perfect opportunity to document those elusive bits of a project that can't be documented anywhere else: engineering trade-offs, why decisions were made, what other alternatives were discarded, and so on.

You burn the house to roast the pig.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

It's a funny thing because I don't want to wish away my privacy. Do I want 'Terminator Genisys' to explode? Absolutely. Do I want to take my career to the next level? Absolutely? You have to trade some things for that. It's all about how you conduct yourself and what you make of the experience.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.