Thomas Sowell Quotes

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

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

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

Sometimes you need to make difficult choices.

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

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

CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.

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.

I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

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.

Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.

Most of the decisions you make are not black and white, but at the end of the day, you have to make the decision.

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.

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

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

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.

Everything in life has its price.

Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all recognize this in our daily lives. It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

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