Quotes About Trade-off

There is no way to get everything in life: You either cultivate your own reason and give precedence to virtue above all else, or you desperately go after externals. You will either give priority to things within you, or to those outside of you. There is a trade-off, and you have to decide which way to go.

Strategy is making trade-offs in competing. The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

The executive editor of Poultry magazine put the trade-off this way in an editorial: "The prospect of a virulent flu to which we have absolutely no resistance is frightening. However, to me, the threat is much greater to the poultry industry. I'm not as worried about the U.S. human population dying from bird flu as I am that there will be no chicken to eat.

The executive editor of Poultry magazine put the trade-off this way in an editorial: "The prospect of a virulent flu to which we have absolutely no resistance is frightening. However, to me, the threat is much greater to the poultry industry. I'm not as worried about the U.S. human population dying from bird flu as I am that there will be no chicken to eat."3580

I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

Every design is a trade-off.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones, and mine.

Every free thing has an invisible cost attached to it.

Learning requires inefficiency. Businesses, which seek to maximize productivity and profit, would rarely, if ever, accept such a trade-off.

Canadians and Europeans pay higher taxes and get universal health care, less poverty and homelessness, lower addiction rates and arguably more humane societies, and that's probably a worthwhile trade-off.

What is easier for us isn't necessarily what is better for us.

The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.

Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad to get what you need.

You need to decide what you want for yourself. You want to go home? There's a price. You want control over your life? There's a price. You want the freedom to say no? There's a price. There's always a price.

Some things are not lost but sacrificed.

Everything has a price; the only question is how big.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?