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Throughout the
history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the
commission man. His function is too vague, his presence
always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and
even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you
feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of
something that in an ethical society would not need to
exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they
would not need agents.
-- Raymond Chandler
1888-1959, American Author
The agent
never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself
out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you
can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as
anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that
you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
-- Raymond Chandler
1888-1959, American Author
It is
well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles
one party and plunders the other.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
If God had an
agent, the world wouldn't be built yet. It'd only be about
Thursday.
-- Jerry Reynolds
Let every eye
negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
-- William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet,
Playwright, Actor
O world,
world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and
bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill
requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the
performance so loathed?
-- William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet,
Playwright, Actor
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