John Ruskin Quotes

It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.

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.

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

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

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect', when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

The one thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend, I think the worse that they get.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

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

It's the intelligent thing to be frugal.

It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

It is a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

Cost effectiveness and effectiveness are not always the same thing in government.

Build to a standard, not a price.

Since his election, President Trump has made clear that he and his administration will be focusing on ensuring that the government is a smart buyer, getting the most for the taxpayer's dollar.

Just because something is less expensive shouldn't mean it is less well designed.

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

Cheap booze is a false economy.

It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much an object with the purchaser, as the price.

It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.

I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.

You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.