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I make no apologies for reproducing this quotation, as I feel it is as true now as it was then.

There is hardly anything in this world which some man
cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper
and the people who consider price alone are this mans lawful prey,
as it is unwise to pay too much, but 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 every- thing,
because the thing you bought
was incapable of doing the things it was bought to do.
The common law of business balance prohibits paying
too little and getting a lot ... it cannot 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