Middlemen Quotes

• ...in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily

  Big Pun

  Rap, Hip Hop, Littles

  Song: Twinz, 1998

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• It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Business, Party, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

  Peter Max

  Canvas, Paint, Knows

  Twitter post from Nov 28, 2011

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• Computerization eliminates the middleman

  Isaac Asimov

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• Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Essentials, Assets

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• I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Ideas, Long

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• Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you’re just a middleman. “
  “Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new. “
  “Everyone is not your customer. “
  “Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

  Seth Godin

  Fire, People, Trying

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• My favorite recordings are the ones that feel like there were no middlemen in the creation. That's the biggest problem with most films and records being made today - too many people involved. I think it dilutes the artist's intent and inspiration.

  M. Ward

  Inspiration, Artist, Thinking

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

  Billy Bragg

  Struggle, Cutting, Reality

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• The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.

  Geoffrey Faber

  Tunes, Doe, Pay

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• The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

  Benjamin Carson

  Cutting, Keys, Doctors

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• I...am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light...in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required.

  Bill Hicks

  Light, Mind, Source

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• If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must take an obsessive pride in the smallest details of your craft. And you must be willing to defend what you've written against the various middlemen - editors, agents and publishers - whose sights may be different from yours, whose standards not so high.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Pride, Sight

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• Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that.

  Seth

  Boss, World, Imagine

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• If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Love, Heart, Hands

  Theodore Sturgeon (1986). “Godbody”, Dutton Adult

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• Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.

  Dorothy Parker

  People, Soul, Would Be

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.194, Penguin

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• The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Responsibility, Reality

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• I think that social media is a really good way to stay in touch with the people who are following you, and I think it's nice to have that very direct relationship with them - you don't necessarily need a middleman or woman. A lot of people, when I meet them, I recognize them by their profile pictures.

  Tove Styrke

  Nice, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However, since all reserve funds and savings today usually flow to him, and the total demand for free purchasing power, whether existing or to be created, concentrates on him, he has either replaced private capitalists or become their agent; he has himself become the capitalist par excellence.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Excellence, Bankers, Saving

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

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• THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Educational, People

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• Government can only do two things: It can beat people up and kill them. Or it can threaten to do so. When it seems to be doing something else - for example, handing out money or, say, surplus cheese - what's actually going on is that something has been taken away from one set of individuals by deadly force or the threat of deadly force, a hefty middleman's fee deducted, and whatever is left thrown to peasants delighted to receive stolen goods.

  L. Neil Smith

  Taken, Government, Two

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• Debt settlement companies work as a middleman between you and your creditor. If all goes well (and that's a big if), you should be able to settle your debts for cents on the dollar. You'll also pay a fee to the debt settlement company, usually either a percentage of the total debt you have or a percentage of the total amount forgiven.

  Jean Chatzky

  Dollars, Debt, Pay

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.

  Aldo Leopold

  Men, Civilization, Support

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.178, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Whether they really believe in their brave new world, however, is ultimately beside the point. They're building it. And in the friction-free future, jacked into paradise, we'll have the 'liberty' of living (or rather, or buying the illusion of living), through the benevolent offices of a middleman as nearly omnipotent as god himself. Freedom? A more perfect captivity is difficult to imagine.

  Mark Slouka

  Believe, Brave New World, Perfect

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• Side by side with the middlemen, punishment will have to be given against those who are moving from the country in illegal way, they are tainting the image of the country along with pushing their life into a danger.

  Sheikh Hasina

  Life, Country, Moving

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