Quotes About Trade-off

I gave up my childhood for a career.

You can't call your life your own: and in return you have safety, if it's worth having at the price you pay.

Finding is Losing Something Else" Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this. in A Taste of the Taste of Brautigan," California Living (16 May 1971)

Nothing comes without a price.

Life was a trade-off between loneliness and inevitable peaks of joy or agony.

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

Why kill good people just to get a bad man?

Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

Money is all about opportunity cost. Every time you spend on something, that's something you can't spend on something else.

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

Money often costs too much

Don't try to skin your rabbit and keep it as a pet too.

In life things are only free after you've paid for them.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist, lecturer and poet (1803-1882)

Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain.

Each decision that we make comes with a hidden price. We're never told what it is we may be asked to sacrifice.

When a particular measure is used as an indicator of the performance of a system, people may choose to target that measure, improving its value but at the cost of other aspects of the system.

You pay for good days by then having bad days. You pay for joy with pain.

When you are made to choose between two good things... Don't just think of what you'll get when you pick one. But think of what you'll lose when you don't choose the other.

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.