“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 is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.”

“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you paytoo little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing youbought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. Thecommon law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting alot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is wellto add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you willhave enough to pay for something better.”

“A thing of worth is what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.”

“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”

“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.”

“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”

“I want to speak to you about the treasures hidden in books; and about the way we find them, and the way we lose them.”