Quotes About Trade-off

Everything in life has its price.

Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

Medicine: "Your money and your life!

Why is it that for everything you gain in life, something is always lost?

You pay a price for everything in life.

Understanding and dealing correctly with the trade-off between risk and return is a fundamental, but poorly understood, challenge faced by all gamblers and investors.

Compromise is impossible without sacrifice; deprivations become destiny.

Life essentially follows a barter system because a person has to give-out something to get-in something else of the same value only.

We must as a second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

More important, her curated self was a person she would admire—a hugely successful, hardworking executive. And she succeeded! But nothing is permanent, and now she felt like every hour of work was giving her less than the last, and not just less happiness—less power and prestige, too. Her problem was that the "special one" she had created was less than a full person. She had traded herself for a symbol of herself, you might say.

You can make up your mind to do one of two things: You can have a good time in life, or you can have a successful life, but you can't have both. You have got to make up your mind at the start which of the two you are going to have.

Every form of refuge has its price.

No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.

Money often costs too much.' —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

not everything comes with an easy answer, or without a price.

One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both.

But everything you do in life has a downside.

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

Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.

Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.

Thus, homeostatic compensations that ensue after injury, disease, or major environmental challenges to the body may represent a "trade-off" that is necessary to maintain vital body functions but may, in the long term, contribute to additional abnormalities of body function. The discipline of pathophysiology seeks to explain how the various physiological processes are altered in diseases or injury.