Auctions Quotes

• Cada elección es una especie de subasta anticipada de bienes robados.

  H. L. Mencken

  Liberty, Politics, Election

  "Prejuicios: Primera Serie". Libro de H. L. Mencken, 1919.

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• Solía guardar todas mis hojas de rechazo porque me decía a mí misma: algún día las autografiaré y las subastaré. Y entonces perdí la caja.

  James Lee Burke

  Rejection, One Day, Used

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• A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.

  Rumi

  Pearls, Enough

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• Que Dios nos ayude si alguna vez sacamos al teatro del negocio de las subastas o de cualquier otra cosa. Sería un mundo terriblemente aburrido.

  A. Alfred Taubman

  Would Be, World, Helping

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• My theory with the auctions has been to try to make them like a party, like a social event. If people are having a good time, talking with their friends, they're much more likely to bid.

  Paul Brown

  Party, Talking, People

  Fuente: www.missbargainhuntress.com

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• By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or aesthetic value. You look to get the wholesale price and you hope for retail spikes periodically when you get two or three people in the audience that want the same thing.

  Paul Brown

  Hands, Two, People

  Fuente: www.missbargainhuntress.com

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• Las subastas son combinaciones extrañas de mercado de esclavos, parqué, teatro y burlesque... mucha gente va a poner muchas excusas o a mantener que nunca formaron parte de esto.

  Jerry Saltz

  Personas, Teatro, Mercado

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• I got [Muhammad Ali's boxing shorts] for $40 at an auction. Nobody wanted them. I have them framed in my house.

  Christopher Walken

  Boxing, House, Framed

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Tengo este precioso decantador de vino antiguo de plata que compré en una subasta. Siempre sirvo vino de ahí.

  Paul Lynde

  Beautiful, Wine, Antiques

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• Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

  Edgar Degas

  Beautiful, Horse, Art

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• Cuando los líderes eligen hacerse postores en una subasta de popularidad, sus talentos, en la construcción del Estado, no serán de ninguna utilidad. Se convertirán en aduladores en lugar de legisladores; en instrumentos y no en guías del pueblo.

  Edmund Burke

  People, Leader, Election

  Edmund Burke (1790). "Reflexiones sobre la Revolución en Francia: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris", p.353

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• Dark money has turned our elections into auctions

  Fred DuVal

  Dark, Election

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• Mi padre solía dirigir subastas. Ahora es cantante en las Islas Canarias.

  Jason Statham

  Correr, Padre, Islas

  Entrevista con Steve Head, www.ign.com. 6 de junio de 2003.

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• Me encanta ir a ventas de etiquetas, a subastas.

  Lara Spencer

  Etiqueta

  "Lara Spencer, de ABC, está impaciente por presentar 'Antiques Roadshow' en 2004". Entrevista con Mary Daniels, articles.chicagotribune.com. 20 th Of July de 2003.

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• I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Years, Charity

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• The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more impressive - nearly every e-auction delivered cost savings.

  Brian Miller

  Average, Insightful, Saving

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• El gobierno está formado por una pandilla de hombres exactamente como tú y como yo. No tienen, unos con otros, ningún talento especial para los asuntos de gobierno; sólo tienen talento para conseguir y ocupar cargos. Su principal recurso para conseguirlo es buscar grupos que suspiren por algo que no pueden conseguir y prometer dárselo. Nueve de cada diez veces esa promesa no vale nada. La décima vez se compensa saqueando A para satisfacer B. En otras palabras, el gobierno es un intermediario del pillaje, y cada elección es una especie de subasta anticipada de bienes robados.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lying, Men, Office

  "Charting the Candidates '72" by Ronald Van Doren, 1972.

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• Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get reciprocation tendency, you get deprival super-reaction syndrome, the thing is going away... I mean it just absolutely is designed to manipulate people into idiotic behavior.

  Charlie Munger

  Mean, People, Guy

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• No me gusta que las obras maestras tengan aventuras de una noche en las casas de los coleccionistas entre subasta y subasta.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Home, Night, Masterpiece

  1989 Sobre los beneficios rápidos de su obra. En el NewYork Times, 10 de mayo.

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• I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market is complex. Sadly we have a situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Art, Ideas, Creating

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Everything I commission - whether it is for me or for a client's home or for a hotel or office - is absolutely unique to that job. I have everything made, or I find vintage and antique pieces at markets and auctions.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Jobs, Home, Unique

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• My other hobby, because I just love any job with a gavel, is auctioneer. And I so often have presided over charity auctions in New York that many years ago Sotheby's sent me my own gavel. Now, the Sotheby's gavel is infinitely more elegant--it came in a little velvet bag, with "Sotheby's" inscribed in gold. It hangs in my library. I feel that everyone has occasion to use a gavel at various times everyday, they just don't think of it.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Jobs, New York, Thinking

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• The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services of one kind or another. But this foolish as well as muddled. It is foolish because left-of-centre parties will always be able to outbid right-of-centre ones in this auction - after all, that is why they are on the left in the first place. The muddle arises because once we concede that public spending and taxation are than a necessary evil we have lost sight of the core values of freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Sight, Attachment

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• It's the greatest game I ever saw. You can't lose. Everybody buys to sell and nobody buys to keep. What's worrying me is who is going to be the last owner. It's just like an auction; the only one stuck is the last one.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Games, Worry

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• Me regalaron todas las guitarras de mi padre cuando falleció, y estaban guardadas en casa. Mi madre decidió que volvían a ser suyas, las recuperó todas y ahora van a salir a subasta.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Mother, Dad, Guitar

  "Dweezil Zappa plays... whatever he wants". Interview with Allison Stewart, www.chicagotribune.com. October 6, 2016.

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