{"id":15775,"date":"2012-10-11T08:47:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T22:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benmarden.com.au\/?p=15775"},"modified":"2012-10-11T09:10:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T23:10:51","slug":"john-ruskin-19th-century-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benmarden.com.au\/index.php\/john-ruskin-19th-century-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Common Law of Business Balance\u201d – John Ruskin 19th Century Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cThere is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person\u2019s lawful prey. It\u2019s unwise to pay too much, but it\u2019s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money \u2014 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 \u2014 it can\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/div>\n
– John Ruskin 19th Century Poet<\/div>\n

\u201cThere is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person\u2019s lawful prey. It\u2019s unwise to pay too much, but it\u2019s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money \u2014 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 \u2014 it can\u2019t 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.\u201d