Auction Quotes

“A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The auction sells things you won’t find anywhere else, the things that are the only ones of their kind, and soon, they’ll sell it.”
― Misba, The High Auction

“You can buy history, but you can't buy a culture.”
― Nathan Mirts

“A stranger came out to White Acre one day to sell Henry a pony, for Alma to learn to ride. The pony's name was Soames, and he was the color of sugar icing, and Alma loved him immediately. A price was negotiated. The two men settled on three dollars. Alma, who was only six years old, asked, "Excuse me, sir, but does that price also include the bridle and saddle which the pony is currently wearing?"
The stranger balked at the question, but Henry roared with laughter. "She's got you there, man!" he bellowed, and for the rest of that day, he ruffled Alma's hair whenever she came nearer, saying, "What a good little auctioneer I've got as a daughter!”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“Buying is an extremely satisfying, macho act”
― Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World

“When supply can't keep up with demand, the result is bidding wars. And in bidding wars, there are always winners and there are always losers. There are no mutually beneficial outcomes. So from an economic perspective, this is extremely wasteful.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Ford Bronco ilikuwa sehemu ya upelelezi wa polisi wa Tume ya Dunia, na ilipigwa mnada baada ya upelelezi na kesi kumalizika. Kiasi kikubwa cha pesa iliyopatikana kilikwenda kwa WPD – Idara ya Polisi ya Tume ya Dunia – ili iendelee kuimarisha huduma ya kukomesha biashara haramu ya madawa ya kulevya duniani.”
― Enock Maregesi

“The Cubs are a major league baseball team based in Chicago. Apparently, the team was once cursed by a goat and is doomed now to never win the World Series. The 71 seats [auctioned by the Chicago Board of Exchange] are adjacent to the Cubs' dugout on the third-base line. This is an unnecessary detail needed to give color to what would otherwise be a dull and uninspiring narrative.”
― Rakesh V. Vohra, Principles of Pricing: An Analytical Approach

“The world is an auction house where every person becomes a victim of the auction.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Au contraire, and because I said that, that makes me French, unlike the Englishman at a Paris auction house who raised his '3' paddle after a Frenchman yelled, 'I bid you adieu.”
― J.S. Mason, The Ghost Therapist...And Other Grand Delights

“Continuo a vender alguns quadros através da galeria de Nice, é certo, mas tenho sempre dificuldade em desfazer-me das telas e sobretudo àquele preço exploratório… mas enfim, um quadro tem de seguir a sua viagem! Talvez os volte a encontrar. Quanto ao meu futuro? A verdade é que não sei o que quero fazer a partir de agora…”
― Rui Carruço

“Fair Warning by Stewart Stafford

Sheer Heart Attack!
The auctioneer's hammer fell,
On Freddie's exquisite clutter,
The room officially rocked.

The last item of King Mercury,
Sold to the highest bidder,
In the room and online,
No Kensington Pyramid, though.

Seven Seas of Rhye claimed,
The Killer Queen laid to rest,
A throne in flux, vacated,
Champion bids will out, darling!

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford