Quotes About Trade-offs

None of us want to ever face a choice between putting food on the table or paying rent.

Look, ideally I'd like to have free money to give to everybody. The reality is in government you have to choose and make decisions.

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

20. Dreams Require Sacrifice The simple truth of life is that to get the things you really want, you will have to give up something else that you hold dear - whether it is your 'easy' life, your evening bar sessions, your comfort food or your time. Success requires sacrifice. Get used to it.

By necessity, budgets require hard choices.

Rather than recognising the challenges of a fast-changing society require sometimes complex responses, that we live in a world of trade-offs, that easy answers are usually false answers, we have seen the rise of the simplifiers.

To be clear, building a seamless and convenient network of protected cycling infrastructure will require trade-offs. On many streets, adding a cycle track means narrowing or removing car lanes, or eliminating on-street parking - scenarios that bring panic to car and business owners.

Action requires focus and priorities and these inherently require compromises and pragmatism.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

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

What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.

Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.

General management is more than the stewardship of individual functions. Its core is strategy: defining and communicating the company's unique position, making trade-offs, and forging fit among activities.

Indeed, one of the most important functions of an explicit, communicated strategy is to guide employees in making choices that arise because of trade-offs in their individual activities and in day-to-day decisions. Improving

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

That she was now more tired and forgetful, while able to do three times what she had been able to do when she was somewhat less tired and forgetful but also stressed, guilty, grouchy, and overwhelmed, seemed a small price to pay.

You can work long, hard, and smart, but at Amazon.com you can pick only two out of three.

Therefore, for every public job created by the bridge project a private job has been destroyed somewhere else.

one occupation can expand only at the expense of all other occupations.

Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas

Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.

I've thought it would be cool to have a baby young. You know, be my road dog - like my dogs, they travel the world - but there's always something you have to give up for success. Everything comes at a cost. Just what are you willing to pay for it?

The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.