Fast AND Good Means Expensive #freelance #mindset

1 Mar 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker recounts a freelance pricing negotiation where a client asks for a fast, high‑quality deliverable. The speaker references the classic time‑quality‑cost triangle, explaining that achieving both speed and quality cannot be cheap. Using their usual rate of £50 per hour as a reference, they quote £1,500 for the project—approximately three times their standard hourly rate—justifying the premium for rapid, high‑standard work.

And then he asked me the $60 million question, how much? And I was like, well, my only frame of reference was like a day's work at £50 an hour. And I was like, but he wants it fast. Do you remember the time-quality-cost triangle? Yeah. It's like, if you want it done well and you want it done fast, it's not gonna be cheap. So I didn't, I was like, right. And I blurted out £1,500. So effectively like 3 times my usual rate.