This was the small print at the bottom of a potential client's email today.?ÿ I like it:
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??s 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 balances 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.
There is hardly anything in the world that someone can??t make a little worse and sell a little cheaper??and people who consider price alone are this man??s lawful prey.
?? John Ruskin (1819-1900)
John Ruskin has a lot of great quotes.
I can't find it now; but I saw one that said something like: Never question someone on the fee for their services, only they know what those services are worth. Or something like that...
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I'm pretty sure John was talking about lowball surveyors
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Tolstoy (no slouch himself) called Ruskin "one of the most remarkable men not only of England and of our generation, but of all countries and times".?ÿ?ÿ
Neat.
