Today, just a short and simple quote on this topic:
"There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a
little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price
alone are that person's lawful prey.
It's unwise to pay too much, but it's 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 is incapable of
doing what you bought it to do.
The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a
lot. It can't 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."
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
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