Roberto Azevedo Quotes

That is what all of us must learn to do in the United States; to limit objectives, to get ourselves away from the absolute, to find out what is within our powers.

It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.

You've got to deal with the tools you have in hand. I'm a firm believer in that.

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

I learned over time that you do not go for the perfect solution….You do what is doable and then you want to try and do a little bit more.

When you cannot have something, you make what you have work.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

You can theorise about the options you have but in reality they are very specific.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

I am willing ... when I cannot get all I wish, to take what I can get.

When the terrain differs from the map, you have to go with the terrain.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now.

You have to be a little commercial, and that's what I learnt over the years.

I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.

We want to be as routine-oriented as we can, but it's just not always feasible.

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.