Quotes About Trade-off

Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

He warned that those "who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

They were a susitute. They were what you did when you couldn't have what you wanted.

Trading privacy for security is stupid enough; not getting any actual security in the bargain is even more stupid.

We spent some time in our family talking about what's the trade-off we want to make. We ended up talking a lot about design, but also about the values of our family. Did we care most about getting our wash done in an hour versus an hour and a half? Or did we care most about our clothes feeling really soft and lasting longer? Did we care about using a quarter of the water? We spent about two weeks talking about this every night at the dinner table.

one is obliged sometimes to give up some smaller points in order to obtain greater.

How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry—between, say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off.

The real cost of something is what you must give up in order to get it, which is almost always more than just cash.

She had known for a long time that you had to pay for everything in life, and usually more than it was worth.

If I had booked a car service, it would have delivered me to Princeton ten minutes before the meeting. Instead, I chose to save $115, and lost a $125,000 opportunity in the process.

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

I'd take the flu over the funeral any day of the week.

You're out of beer." "I had to choose between food and the shoes." "You made the right choice.

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.

You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can't choose two out of three.

It is not polite to say so, but it is obvious that paying people to be unemployed encourages unemployment. Yet, if a government scrapped unemployment benefit, there would still be jobless people, and supporting the jobless is something that every civilised society should do. The truth is that we have a trade-off: it is bad to encourage unemployment but good to support those without incomes.

Can I trade a short-term, incremental gain for a potential longer-term, game-changing upside?

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.

One night a century ago, when a screech owl was screeching in the woods along the shores of Walden Pond, Henry Thoreau dipped his goose quill into his homemade ink and wrote in his diary: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life, which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run.