Quotes About Trade-off

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

When you make the decision to prioritize saving and investing your money over spending, you make a trade-off.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

What's the "best" trade-off? Such decisions typically are buried within antitrust or antimonopoly laws, as enforced by administrative agencies and interpreted by prosecutors and courts.

This physics constrains all projects to obey an unassailable trade-off called the Iron Cross of project management. Good, fast, cheap, done: Pick any three you like. You can't have the fourth.

Powerful people judge everything by what it costs, not just in money but in time, dignity, and peace of mind.

what you gain on the swings, you lose on the roundabouts.

There's always the question of price, isn't there? Some prices I might not want to pay.

To me, that is too high a price to pay for a little bit of security.

Nothing good ever comes without a price.

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline. Henry Drummond, a character in Inherit the Wind

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

Finally, remember that by saying "yes"—to projects, a course of action, or whatever—you are implicitly saying "no" to something else. Each time you make a commitment, you forfeit your chance to commit to something else.

Remember that by saying "yes"—to projects, a course of action, or whatever—you are implicitly saying "no" to something else.

Vale la pena pagare il piacere col dolore.

From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.