“Cheap work isn’t good and good work isn’t cheap” is a saying displayed in many businesses. “If it’s good it isn’t cheap—If it’s cheap it isn’t good” was cited in a 1914 magazine. “Cheap Insurance Isn’t Good—Good Insurance Isn’t Cheap” was cited in a 1924 newspaper.
“Good service isn’t cheap and cheap service isn’t good” was printed in a 1967 newspaper advertisement.
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April 1914, American Clay Magazine, pg. 22, col. 1:
IF IT’S GOOD IT ISN’T CHEAP
IF IT’S CHEAP IT ISN’T GOOD.
8 February 1924, Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch, pg. 14, col. 6 ad:
Cheap Insurance
ISN’T GOOD
Good Insurance
ISN’T CHEAP
Louis B. Hatke, Insuror
29 January 1933, Lima (OH) Sunday News, pg. 15, col. 5 ad:
Cheap Insurance Isn’t Good
Good Insurance Isn’t Cheap
John M. Boose & Son
23 April 1967, Aberdeen (SD) American-News, pg. 9, col. 1 ad:
GOOD SERVICE ISN’T CHEAP AND CHEAP SERVICE ISN’T GOOD
CHUCK’S AERIAL SPRAYERS
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Master Posing Guide for Portrait Photographers:
A Complete Guide to Posing Singles, Couples and Groups
By J. D. Wacker
Buffalo, NY: Amherst Media, Inc.
2002
Pg. ?:
A statement on the back of a small town restaurant’s menu made this issue quite clear, “Good food isn’t cheap. Cheap food isn’t good.”
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MyGait
@mygait
Good service isn’t cheap and cheap service isn’t good. Today’s inspiration from an auto shop sign on the drive into the office.
8:35 AM - 27 Jan 2011
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How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business
By Owen E. Dell
Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing
2015
Pg. 209:
Just remember that good work isn’t cheap and cheap work isn’t good.
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Ron Thomas
@ronthomasaz
The old saying that “cheap service isn’t good and good service isn’t cheap” applies often in life and in divorce & custody cases.
2:15 PM - 20 Jul 2015
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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