Quotes About Trade-off

Short term gain will result in long term pain

Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness?

Sometimes, to fix something, you need to completely ruin something else

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one

There is no sacrifice for nothing

For one man to gain another must lose

We're willing to lose some customers if it means that others love our products intensely. That's our line in the sand.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

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

Todo libro que uno lee es también un libro que no lee. Nos vamos a morir. Una elección es una renuncia

To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

The trade-off seems like a no-brainer. Would you rather be bribed during your hospital stay with made-to-order omelets or would you rather be, for example, not dead?

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

Giving up the opportunity to sell something does not hurt as much as taking the money out of your wallet to pay for it. Opportunity costs are vague and abstract when compared to handing over actual cash.

What this means is that people do not assign specific values to objects. When they have to give something up, they are hurt more than they are pleased if they acquire the very same thing.

Imagine that you are about to purchase a jacket for ($125)[$15] and a calculator for ($15)[$125]. The calculator salesman informs you that the calculator you wish to buy is on sale for ($10)[$120] at the other branch of the store, located a twenty-minute drive away. Would you make the trip to the other store?

Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.

No gift comes without a price.

He knew that saying, and he delivered the punch line: "But all the other ways are worse.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.