This quote should be printed and placed where you can see it every day. Perhaps it should be attached to proposals and estimates. It was written sometime in the 1890s.

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 (1819-1900)

British writer and art critic who considered a great painting
to be one who conveys great ideas to the viewer.

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Idea Stimulator – Balance

A balance could be a scale for weighing that depends on pull of gravity. An accountant refers to equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account. It could be a state of equilibrium. Balance may be the harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) As a principle of design, balance refers to the way elements of art are arranged to create a feeling of stability in a work, or a harmonious arrangement to proportion of parts in a composition. Balance can be symmetrical, or formal; or it can be asymmetrical, or informal. Balance might refer to the concept of what is left after other parts have been taken away.

In all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of
one part to another and a reciprocal balance
John Ruskin

Sense of balance. Balance sheet. Balance of trade. Balance due. Bank balance. Out of balance. Balance beam. Past due balance. Zero balance. Balance of power. Tip the balance. Counterbalance. Symmetry. Balancing act. Balanced diet. Balance of payments. Delicate balance. Fifty-fifty deal. The skater lost her balance.

What else?

In what ways are you in or out of balance. How does this serve you?

What if you were to create an image that was completely out of balance? I have done that intentionally and unintentionally

Why is balance important?

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