Theo Epstein Quotes

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

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

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

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

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.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.

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

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

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

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

Hawks usually care about benefits; doves most about costs. Neither benefits or costs however are easily estimated in advance.

Politicians are elected to reach compromise. We compromise all the time in our daily lives. Is there something dirty about that?

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

Life is full of trade-offs. At different phrases in your life, you're able to do certain things that you can't do at other phases. And you make choices.

If you start with a compromise, you live with a compromise for a long time.

You know what I learned? Everything has a price.

Sometimes you do have to accept your second or third choice in order to avoid an outcome you consider to be even worse.

We make choices every single day of our lives and those choices mean we must give up something in exchange for another. In economics it's called an 'opportunity cost.'

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