Trade Offs Quotes

• There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.

  Thomas Sowell

  Conservative, Trade, Solutions

  "David Mamet launches tirade against 'antisemitism' of British writers" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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• Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

  Michael Porter

  Choices, Different, Strategy

  "What is strategy?" by Michael Porter, Harvard Business Review, November 1996.

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• Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

  Thomas Sowell

  Garden, Eden, Late

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.

  Peter Blair Henry

  Life Is, Economist, Trade

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• Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

  Lou Holtz

  Hard Work, Winning, Hands

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

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Groups, Different, Fundamentals

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• A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

  Brad Pitt

  Family, Loss, Venture

  "Brad Pitt Is Finally 'Satisfied'". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. September 15, 2011.

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• When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Building Something, Trade, Knows

  Kikizo Interview, archive.videogamesdaily.com. April 2, 2009.

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• There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

  Kenny Rogers

  Wisdom, Gains, Spontaneity

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• The question to ask when you look at security is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off.

  Bruce Schneier

  Looks, Trade, Asks

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• I've always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.

  Brad Pitt

  Loss, Winning, Next

  "Brad Pitt: Marriage is more than 'just a title'". www.foxnews.com. September 29, 2014.

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• Every country has it trade offs.

  Peter Tork

  Country, Trade

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• Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the government subsidize low-wage employment. The earned-income tax credit for low-income workers - which has been the object of proposed cuts by both President Clinton and congressional Republicans - has been a positive step in this direction.

  Paul Krugman

  Philosophy, Cutting, Government

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• We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.

  John Trudell

  Ignorance, Reality, Rights

  John Trudell (1994). “Stickman: John Trudell Poems, Lyrics, Talks, a Conversation”

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• Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, 'When you follow your bliss, it's money you'll miss.'

  Warren Farrell

  Believe, Book, Reality

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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• I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.

  Tim Cook

  Struggle, Gay, Sacrifice

  "Tim Cook Speaks Up" by Tim Cook, www.bloomberg.com. October 30, 2014.

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• I think it's a false trade-off to say quality time versus quantity - you have to have both.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Quality, Trade

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Interaction With Others, Bored, Trying

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.

  Kathleen Parker

  Hurt, Thinking, Aggravation

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• Work-family conflicts - the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child - would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Jobs, Children, Work

  "Family Politics: Love and Power on an Intimate Frontier". Book by Letty Cottin Pogrebin, 1983.

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• I don't know if you're ever prepared for public scrutiny. I don't know if you can even mentally prepare yourself for it. But it is part of the job. It's maybe not the most pleasant part but I get to experience so many other things that I shouldn't be able to experience. So, that's the trade-off.

  Megan Fox

  Jobs, Able, Scrutiny

  "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Megan Fox interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

  Dan Gelber

  Running, Conflict, Difficult

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• Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision.

  Bill Gates

  Reality, Doctors, Safety

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.

  Emily Oster

  Jobs, Passion, Thinking

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• First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that site. At the moment, that developer lodges an application, there's usually trade-offs, negotiations, you end up with remnant bits of land. You might end up with some other offset land that the public has to run. There's no cohesive system of then making sure that we maintain and improve biodiversity values.

  Frank Sartor

  Running, Assessment, Land

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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