Jerry Weintraub Quotes

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

Time is our ultimate scarcity. Isaac Newton can give us more electricity, but he can't give us more than 24 hours of the day of time. And so we're constantly having to sacrifice alternate activities to get the one that pleases us most.

One must say no to some opportunities to open the possibilities of others.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.

We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.

Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

It is not possible to spend on one thing and then not have consequences on something else.

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.

We live in a world of competing sorrows ... to govern is to choose.

Sometimes you have to give up one good in order to get another good.

You can have it all, but not all at once.

When you're on set, and that clock is going, every second you spend doing something is a second you spend not doing something else. That's true of all of life, but it's very vivid on a film set because you're always managing that.

You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.