采購管理學習資料(英文版)(ppt 71頁)

……PRICES
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 thing it was bought to do.
The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a
lot. It cant’ 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.
There is hardly anything in the world that someone can’t make a little
worse and sell a little cheaper --- and people who consider price alone
are this man’s lawful prey.
英國思想家 John Ruskin (1819-1900)
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