Does success always comes with a price?

A friend of mine's MSN nick caught my attention - Does success always comes with sacrifice?

Technically everything, that you do and don't do, is a sacrifice - a sacrifice of time that is. And when a time sacrifice affects your ability to engage in another activity, then that is the oppurtunity cost of it.

And let's say that this alternative activity brings you anything that is constructive, that means the time is not wasted on some useless activities. So in this case, you have successfully make use of time.

Now, the answer is nearer.

Everything you do is either useless or useful,

and doing one useful thing can be more useful that doing another activity. This goes to say that to be success, you either pay the price the price which is spending time doing useless things, or spending time doing more successful stuffs, which is quite unlikely as in the first place, success is the state of mind. And since you have chosen success no. 1 as the real success, then the 'more' successful stuffs become less successful.

Disclaimer: Reading this post might make you rethink your goals, at the expense of more important goals that you don't seem to understand.