Next time you get one of those phone calls ' Whats your cheapest price mate' Quote this to them:
The Common Law of Business Balance
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 is all.
When you pay too little
you sometimes lose everything,
because the thing you bought was incapable
of doing the things 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
1819-1900
See they obviously had cowboy carpet cleaners in the 1800s too !!
" What instrument dust thou use to cleaneth my cloth floor sir " ?
We useth the all new Coal steam rug doctor mk1 thou cloth floors dryeth in just 16 days sir "
" Ahhhhh, away with thee, I shall rather use Mr Joe hatton the 3rd esquire, he has a cart mount "
Paul