A Good Quote by John Ruskin, 1819-1900
It is unwise to pay too much,
but it is worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you
lose a little money; that is all. When you pay too little, you
sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was
incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.
The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot.
It cannot be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is
well to add something for the risk you run. And, if you do
that, you will have enough to pay for something better.
There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse
and sell a little cheaper, and people who consider price alone are
this man's lawful prey.