"It's
unwise to pay too much, but is worse to pay too little. When you pay too much,
you lose a little - 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 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) – English art critic and writer...
