Grace Napolitano Quotes

'There are no easy pickings.' That would be a more accurate, less dramatic statement than 'There's no such thing as a free lunch.'

You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Nothing in life is free, you always pay in the end.

You know what I learned? Everything has a price.

The free lunch has still to be invented.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

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

Not only are there no free lunches, but there are no free systemic changes either.

Everything in life has its price.

Economics is a choice between alternatives all the time. Those are the trade-offs.

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.

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.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

There's a harsh reality to situations where demand outstrips supply.

Nothing good happens without a penalty.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

We all can't stay busy doing exactly what we want to do.

It's easy to want the benefits of something; it's hard to want the cost.

Need always plays into your decisions more as the draft unfolds.

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.'

Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.