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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

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.

John Ruskin
Motivational, Running, Business
"The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 657, 2006.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

John Ruskin
Motivational, Believe, Acceptance
John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.732, John Ruskin

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin
Love, Inspirational, Motivational

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

John Ruskin
Motivational, Believe, Humility
John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

John Ruskin
Motivational, Witty, Attitude

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Motivational, Forgiveness
John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.108

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
John Ruskin (1906). “Pre-Raphaelitism”, p.7, Рипол Классик

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