It is unwise to pay to much … but it’s worse to pay too little.
When you pay too much, you lose a little money … and that is all.
When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything … because the think you bought was incapable of doing what it was bought to do.
The common law of business blance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot … in 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.
- John Ruskin
[to] “greet the observer with such sumptuous lines, such opulence of details, such diversity of aspects and with that certain something of greatness in simplicity”
- Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, 1831
"It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick, that second only to their need of fresh air is their need of light ... I had rather have the power of carrying my patient about after the sun, according to the aspect of the rooms, if circumstances permit, than let him linger in a room when the sun is off ... we must admit that light has quite a real and tangible effect upon the human body."
- Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing: What it is, and what it is not, 1859
“We have no argument with those whose prices are lower than ours – they know what their stuff is worth.”
- Author Unknown
"Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music." (We purposely transposed this on our cover page)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
- Winston Churchill
