Why we hire professionals
This landed in my inbox this morning:
Guy calls a plumber because he can’t figure out why his pipes are making
noise. Plumber comes in, inspects a few things, twists a knob and hands him
a bill for $300.
“Hey!” The guy’s incensed. “How can you charge me $300 for twisting a knob?”
“I’m not charging you for my time. I’m charging for knowing which knob and
what to do with it.”
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Brian Hogg October 2nd
I heard a similar anecdote recently, involving Picasso.
A woman is walking through a park, and finds Picasso sitting at a bench. She approaches him, asks him if he would draw her a sketch. He agrees, and the elated woman hands him a pencil and some paper. Picasso looks at the woman for some moments, then creates a sketch using a single stroke of the pencil. He hands it to the woman.
“That’s remarkable!” She says. “It encapsulates everything about me.”
Pleased, Picasso says “That will be $5,000.”
“$5,000, but it only took you seconds to draw it!” The woman says.
Picasso replies: “My dear, it’s taken me my whole life.”
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