Trade-Off Quotes

Freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

Nothing of value is free.

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

The best is the enemy of the good.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

If failure is not an option, then neither is success.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

Better is the enemy of good.

Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you've got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one is way the hell better than the other, you do not have to spend much time with the other. And that's the way we filter out buying opportunities.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

If we think a playoff spot's not in the cards, there will be no concern for appearances or cosmetics whatsoever. We'll continue to address our future and trade off some pieces that would keep us respectable.

With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.