Albert Brooks Quotes

Enough or not...it will have to do

I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.

This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want.

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

The best is the enemy of the good.

If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.

It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.

Oh, I suppose you've given me as square a deal as you could. We shouldn't expect from any person something beyond his capacity.

Nobody was really happy but everyone could accept.

Most people think good enough is good enough.

We have to get out there and explain that imperfect tastes just as good.

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.

If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

In the world I live in, 'not worse' is nearly as good as 'better'.

You are what you settle for.

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing.

Better than nothing is not good enough for you!