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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Luckily, what you trade off in not being part of the comic book canon and not having some literature that you can use to your benefit, in terms of figuring out who you are, you gain in the ability to just be whoever you want to be.

  Dallas Roberts

  Book, Want, Gains

  Source: collider.com

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• I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.

  Channing Tatum

  Balance, Kind, Film

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• There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Mean, People, Growth

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• The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.

  Thomas Sowell

  Imagination, Society, Problem

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Records, Destroying, Trade

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Cost, Done

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• You all know I have terminal cancer—and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist. This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. I know I can't have both very long. The trade-offs are all right with me. But if the legacy we helped give Oregon and which made it twinkle from afar—if it goes, then I guess I wouldn't want to live in Oregon anyhow.

  Tom McCall

  Cancer, Stress, Love Life

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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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• There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a flea market. They weren't the greatest guitar but they would be cool to still have them. Other than that, not as a professional.

  John Petrucci

  Guitar, Would Be, Fleas

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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