Schmalz Auctions Quotes

#1. Our company has only been active in Beijing and Shanghai, two very market-dominated cities. This was an advantage. Land is purchased here in public auctions, in a transparent way. When you do real estate development outside Beijing and Shanghai it is good to have "guanxi" - good relations within the local government. #Quote by Zhang Xin

#2. President George Washington's namesake capital, once a marketplace for slave auctions, is now synonymous with democracy and freedom; so is the iconic Jefferson, who wanted to build an "Empire of Liberty" for the world. #Quote by Patrick Mendis

#3. Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston. #Quote by Nicki Minaj

#4. As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had a lot of our own ideas about how the service would evolve. Coming from PayPal and eBay, we saw YouTube as a powerful way to add video to auctions, but we didn't see anyone using our product that way, so we didn't add features to support it. #Quote by Chad Hurley

#5. I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions. #Quote by Robert Rauschenberg

#6. Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale! #Quote by Tom Selleck

#7. Choosing life is always messy.

But it is there in the messiness, in the conflicted and often confused ways we live our lives, that we can learn how much mercy matters to us all. #Quote by Mathew N. Schmalz

#8. People were doing business with one another through the Internet already, through bulletin boards. But on the Web, we could make it interactive, we could create an auction, we could create a real marketplace. And that's really what triggered my imagination, if you will, and that's what I did. #Quote by Pierre Omidyar

#9. I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars. #Quote by Jerry Saltz

#10. I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave. #Quote by Dennis Miller

#11. A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the United States. All of the evidence is that what would occur is that corporate profits would increase by approximately the value of the permits. #Quote by Peter R. Orszag

#13. 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. #Quote by Paul Brown

#14. When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep. #Quote by Arne Glimcher

#15. This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away? #Quote by Jennifer Lawrence

#16. Pa Larkspur?"
She smiled. "Don't be so chauvinistic. He's the best cook in the county. His baskets bring in more money than any others at the picnic auctions."
"Jesus. Baskets? Picnic? Just how country is the Nest?"
"Very." His horrified expression made her laugh. "Clay, you live in a tree. I don't think you should throw stones. #Quote by Nalini Singh

#17. By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block. #Quote by Abe Ajay

#18. Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque ... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this. #Quote by Jerry Saltz

#19. 'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book. #Quote by Adam Davidson

#20. The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful. #Quote by Marlene Dumas

#21. In our busy lives, intimacy often becomes a set piece - we sit down and make time for discussions, for togetherness, for sharing. But sometimes the most intimate parts of ourselves - our desires, our fears, our needs and sensitivities - are revealed most strongly in the course of our mundane routines. #Quote by Mathew N. Schmalz

#22. The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be used to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the stagnation. #Quote by George Soros

#23. Why shouldn't you use numeric ids in your URLs? First, your competitors can see just how many auctions you create. Numeric consecutive ids also allow people to write automated spiders to steal your content. It's a window into your database. And finally, words in URLs just look better. (Google "German tank problem" to learn about how serial numbers on German tanks helped the allies win World War II.) #Quote by Obie Fernandez

#24. I think there is going to be a whole market and we'll start to see hip-hop jewelry regularly in jewelry auctions around the world. Therefore, anybody who gets on the train early can only do well financially in the long run. #Quote by Simon De Pury

#25. My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands. #Quote by Jason Statham

#26. An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods. #Quote by Ambrose Bierce

#27. We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong. #Quote by Ann Richards

#28. The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions. #Quote by Reed Hundt

#29. There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding. #Quote by William McIlvanney

#30. A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself. #Quote by Rumi

#31. They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know. #Quote by Chrystos

#32. I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that. #Quote by Paul Lynde

#33. My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson. #Quote by Pedro Martinez

#34. 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. #Quote by Fran Lebowitz

#35. I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal. #Quote by Dan Butler

#36. Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#37. It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists. #Quote by Damien Hirst

#38. 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. #Quote by Paul Brown

#39. Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them. #Quote by Jerry Saltz

#40. 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. #Quote by Kelly Wearstler