you get what you pay for

English

In commercial transactions, the quality of goods and services increases as the prices increase, i.e., the more one pays, the better the merchandise.
- 1991 October 28, Janice Castro, Richard Woodbury, “The Man Who Fired a Dog To Save a Buck”, in Time, retrieved 4 November 2018:
  You get what you pay for. If you want a lower price, you can go to Motel 6..

Used both to denigrate inexpensive goods as naturally inferior and to praise expensive goods as being of high quality.

quality of goods increases as the prices increases

Chinese:
Cantonese: 一分錢，一分貨 / 一分钱，一分货 (jat¹ fan¹ cin⁴, jat¹ fan¹ fo³)

Mandarin: 一分錢，一分貨 / 一分钱，一分货 (yī fēn qián, yī fēn huò)
Danish: du får, hvad du betaler for
Finnish: sitä saat, mitä tilaat
French: en avoir pour son argent (fr)
German: Qualität hat ihren Preis
Hungarian: olcsó húsnak híg a leve
Indonesian: ada rupa, ada harga
Japanese: 安物買いの銭失い (ja) (やすものがいのぜにうしない, yasumonogai no zeni ushinai)
Macedonian: колку пари, толку музика (kolku pari, tolku muzika, literally “as much music as there is money”)
Polish: jakość ma swoją cenę
Spanish: nadie da duros a pesetas, el que quiere celeste que le cueste
Swedish: man får vad man betalar för
Tajik: ба пулдор кабоб, ба бепул дуди кабоб (ba puldor kabob, ba bepul dud-i kabob, literally “kebab for the one who has money, kebab smoke for the one who doesn't”)
Vietnamese: tiền nào của nấy, tiền nào của đó, tiền nào của đấy, tiền nào của ấy