Thomas Sowell Quotes

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

As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.

Life is full of trade-offs. At different phrases in your life, you're able to do certain things that you can't do at other phases. And you make choices.

Sometimes in life you have to make a decision and make sacrifices.

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

It is not possible to spend on one thing and then not have consequences on something else.

I think it's sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I'm best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But that's not how the real world works.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.

It stinks to give up a good player. But if you think that way, you'll never make any trades. You have to focus on what you're getting back.

You have to sacrifice sometimes. There are so many things in life you might want to do, but you have to know when to let go.

Unfortunately, in life, you have to make decisions based on so many things. I love watching the Premier League, and I've always had the opportunity to go, but a better offer always got in the way.

When something becomes a business, 50% of your decisions are what you have to do and not what you want to do.

Everything has an opportunity cost, and the big things we want in life - like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth - they all have big opportunity costs.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that's worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.