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What is a poor man's Night Force?
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<blockquote data-quote="Greyfox" data-source="post: 561105" data-attributes="member: 10291"><p><strong>After 40+ years and lots of scopes(and rifles), I have found Ruskin's philosphy to apply much more often than not</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>The Common Law of Business Balance</strong> is a meditation on price attributed to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0645ad">John Ruskin</span></a>. It reads as follows:</p><p>"There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person's lawful prey. 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 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."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greyfox, post: 561105, member: 10291"] [B]After 40+ years and lots of scopes(and rifles), I have found Ruskin's philosphy to apply much more often than not[/B] [B]The Common Law of Business Balance[/B] is a meditation on price attributed to [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin"][COLOR=#0645ad]John Ruskin[/COLOR][/URL]. It reads as follows: "There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person's lawful prey. 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 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." [/QUOTE]
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