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The life you desire is there for the taking, but it comes at a cost.
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11 |
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…even if you don’t mind cleaning, cooking, or laundry, or you are efficient at these things, the important point is that household chores have an opportunity cost.
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158 |
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…plan ahead – that is, lower the transaction costs – and fill your leisure time with enough meaningful activities and constructive relaxation that TV doesn’t become the default activity…
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185 |
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…in most circumstances, it’s wise to look at three variables – quality, speed, and cost – and realize that you can usually pick any two, but not all three.
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197 |
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Rather than focusing on continuous improvement and getting better, bureaucracy merely adds complexity and inefficiency – and costs – to the status quo.
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250 |
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When you’re highly suspicious, you tend to try to validate everything, to analyze everything to death – which ends up decreasing speed and increasing cost.
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291 |
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Often, our passion and perseverance do not spring from a cold, calculating analysis of the costs and benefits of alternatives. Rather, the source of our strength is the person we know ourselves to be.
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248 |
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Annual performance reviews are costly, exhausting, and mostly futile.
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175 |
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…organizations that shelter assholes risk greater legal costs…
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37 |
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The loathing and dissatisfaction that assholes provoke has costs in addition to increased turnover.
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40 |
