Quotes About Trade-off

Thoreau establishes early in Walden: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Bir ?eyin maliyeti, o ?ey kar??l???nda hemen ya da uzun vaadede verilmesi gereken ömür miktar?d?r.

These directly measurable costs, however, were the easy part of his decision. It was instead the "opportunity costs" that required more attention. As he elaborated: "If I make hay all summer, I can't be doing something else.

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

The best of a bad bargain.

You cannot have it both ways.

We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.

He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other.

When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost.

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

R.W.Emersonas. Kompensacijos taisykl? paaiškino labai suprantamai: už visk? ka praleidote gavote kažk? kit? ir už visk? k? gavote kažk? praleidote.

We saw the trade-off between the interests of the collective and those of the individual.

which a loss is more painful than a gain is pleasant):

but would treat cost of search as "loss.

In fact for most people except those that are very ill, the risks outweigh the benefits.

because they cost more to run than the benefits they bring.

sometimes life requires compromises:

It's always the lesser of two evils.' 'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.' -Connor

Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained, so that over time we'd be lucky if we just broke even. Any thought otherwise was empty pride. p. 380