Good, Fast, or Cheap — Pick 2 to Grow Your Business

Because you can’t offer all 3 for long

Stephanie Thurrott
The Startup
Published in
5 min readJul 1, 2021

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A Venn diagram with three overlapping circles: good, fast, and cheap
Illustration credit: Ikameco on Fiverr

I was getting my kitchen remodeled the first time I heard this phrase:

“You can have it good, fast, or cheap — pick any two.”

It turned out to be true with any of the contractors I hired:

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Stephanie Thurrott
The Startup

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