John Ruskin Quotes

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 is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

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 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.

The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.

He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.

Everything I do in life is framed through the view of a businessman. That's my instinct. If I go into a pharmacy to buy shaving cream, then I'm going to look for the best deal on shaving cream.

I'm not cheap, I'm thrifty.

wise economy … is as far removed from parsimony as from corrupt and corrupting extravagance.

I still refuse films offered to me at phenomenal prices and am doing some for peanuts.

Let me get my money's worth if I'm going to get some techs.

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

Cheap booze is a false economy.

Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.