Dealer Quotes - Page 9

• The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.

  Adam Smith

  Opposites, Competition, Different

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.107

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• When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

  Adam Smith

  Errors, Ordinary, Profit

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.335, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the dealers would have liked that.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Needed, Felt

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• If you ask me, we could do with a little less motivation. - The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to me. - Serial killers, stock swindlers, drug dealers, Christian Republicans.

  George Carlin

  Christian, Motivation, People

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• I knew I wanted to be successful in some form or fashion. My first dreams and aspirations of being successful was probably that I wanted to be a successful drug dealer. I wanted to be Nino Brown. That was my first dream.

  Ja Rule

  Dream, Fashion, Successful

  "The Real World of Ja Rule". Interview with Zack Etheart, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 17, 2013.

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• A lot of artists are involved with fabrication. Artists today are making more objects and many of them need the participation of a dealer in order to facilitate and provide support for projects. So that has changed. But I don't know if what it means to be an artist has really changed. I hope that it hasn't.

  Larry Gagosian

  Mean, Artist, Order

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think being from Iran sharpened my eye as an art dealer. This is why, today, I think the true definition of so-called postmodernism is the acceptance that we cannot go by old models any longer. The old models were based upon a single narrative of development that happened along a singular path. In the 20th century, you have electricity, you have transportation by plane, you have the telephone and all the various media that developed, you have a multiplicity of events and voices and creativities that are happening all around the world-and that multiplicity escalated after the war.

  Tony Shafrazi

  Art, War, Creativity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it was because art was his second love. He seemed to love literature more, and he put the serious side of his nature into that...Some people are even better at their second love than their first, maybe because when they care too much, it freezes them, but knowing there's something they'd rather be doing gives them a certain freedom.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Believe, Successful

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• My commitment to stand behind Datsun gained the trust of dealers and sold cars. My motto was: Dealers make money first, and then we make money.

  Yutaka Katayama

  Commitment, Car, Firsts

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• The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Artist, Dope, California

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• Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside it was concealed a stiletto. What a perfect symbol of the Christian religion.

  George Orwell

  Christian, Reading, Italian

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• Who the hell uses a burner cell phone when they're not trying to hide something? [..] Only dope dealers, and Hell's Angels, and Tony Soprano use burner cell phones.

  Pat Martin

  Angel, Dope, Phones

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• 'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.

  Nate Berkus

  Mean, Worry, Fleas

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• Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Mother, Ears, Public Relations

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• Jews were, are, and will remain ideological dope dealers smart enough not to smoke their own stash. They sell equality heroin to you, but they never inject it themselves.

  Alex Linder

  Smart, Dope, Heroin

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• If you can't trust your coke dealer, who can you trust?

  Chelsea Handler

  Coke, Ifs

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• What I like about Layer Cake is its intelligent through-line. First of all, I think it's very close to the truth; I think this is what successful drug dealers are like. They don't drive around in flashy cars, they don't show off, they behave very quietly, they get on with their job and they earn lots of money. And it goes up and up and up and up the scale. Secondly - and selfishly - I like the moral aspect of the movie, which is that violence has consequences, and you feel emotionally involved with the violence.

  Daniel Craig

  Jobs, Successful, Thinking

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• Even before President [Barack] Obama announced actions aimed at tightening controls on gun purchases, sales were up, partly in reaction to terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. Gun dealers say the president's initiatives have spurred sales. At the same time, polling shows more than two thirds of Americans support the president's proposals, including a majority of gun owners.

  Rachel Martin

  Gun, Two, Paris

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people (usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television) would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.

  Hank Stuever

  Party, Pride, Dvds

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. Janaury 28, 2016.

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• In enforcement, you always have to have both a focus on the really worst actors - you know, gang bangers, in this case, drug dealers, that sort of thing - but also routine enforcement because think about, for instance, the IRS. They don't say, OK, well, if you're not a money launderer, it doesn't matter whether you fill your tax return out right or not. They have both. They go after the really bad actors and they have a kind of general, routine enforcement.

  Mark Krikorian

  Thinking, Focus, Drug

  "A Closer Look At Obama Administration's Controversial Deportation Plans". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• I love my fed-ex guy cause he's a drug dealer and he don't even know it...and he's always on time.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Love, Funny, Humor

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• We wonder, what if we got rid of cash? After all, cash is what keeps terrorists, drug dealers and gun dealers in business.

  Erin Burnett

  Gun, Drug, What If

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• One night I was in the players' parking lot at the Fleet Center in my Celtics warm-ups about a half hour before a game, waiting for one of my dealers to come up from Fall River, because if I didn't get my stuff I was too sick to even go through the pre-game layup line, never mind actually play in the game.

  Chris Herren

  Fall, Player, Night

  Chris Herren, Bill Reynolds (2011). “Basketball Junkie: A Memoir”, p.174, Macmillan

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• It's a cocktail-party circuit in D.C., That guy who couldn't master the guitar and get in a band and get laid, he ends up there. Gary Condit make sense to me. He's away from his family, he's in D.C. - if he was a car dealer in the [San Fernando] Valley somewhere out there, he'd be the guy who was trying to get laid by offering you the free undercoating package.

  Dennis Miller

  Party, Offering, Guitar

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• Two main groups like to drop the readymade bomb—galleries and art historians. Galleries love to drop the Duchamp brand because dealers can try to convince clients of an artist’s worth just by mentioning the mouthwatering response readymade. Most Art Historians aren’t interested in what artists are making in Bushwick studios, most of whom rarely wake up with Duchamp on the brain.

  Paddy Johnson

  Art, Two, Brain

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