The
Lowest Bidder
"It's
unwise to pay to much, but it is worse to pay too little. When you
pay to 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 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) |