“It is unwise 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 what it was bought 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, then you will have enough to pay for something better.” — 19th century writer, philosopher John Ruskin
“Whereas in the joy of a treasure one soon forgets a high price paid, with the second rate one only remembers its cheapness.” from a Princeton professor.
