Quotes About Trade-off

as was true of all 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.

What I thought was sacrifice was actually just inconvenience.

Gain cannot be made without loss to someone else.

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.

Is this perfection, or the cost of it?

But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

I thought that any joy in my life had to be paid for with something unpleasant. Perhaps this was a fatal law.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

a loss unconsidered at the time. But to decide for anything is to decide against a multitude of other things. Taking is still more largely leaving. The full extent of this negative decision often escapes our notice, and through the very fact of choosing a good we blindly neglect a best.

All that a man hath will he give for his life.

What you get free costs too much.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

If you want the reward, you must also have the punishment; the only way to get out of the punishment is to give up the reward.

Because the NHS budget covers everybody, the money saved on one patient can be used to treat another. Declining to operate on a sick grandmother means there is more money available to treat sick children. Accordingly, protests about denied coverage tend to be muted. In the U.S. system, that trade-off doesn't apply; if an American insurance company refuses to pay $36,000 for Herceptin for one of its clients, the money saved is likely used to enhance profits.

There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.

Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it.

You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.

we've sacrificed our potential in a bargain to preserve connection.

With an index fund, the certainty of keeping up with the market is a very worthwhile trade-off for the possibility of beating it.