"The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me."

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Source : 1987 Hammer, Witness to History, his autobiography.

Armand Hammer

#Art Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Relaxation Quotes

“I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.”
“The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.”

Source : Denis Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for the 21st Century”, Waitley Institute
“A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.”

Source : "Heroic Reason" by Juan Ramón Jiménez (p. 231), 1957.
“Art is all in the details.”
“I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.”
“When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound.”

Source : Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.50, Macmillan
“I support and have always supported passage of a federal constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. As President, I will fight for passage of this amendment. My personal belief is that marriage is between one man and one woman, for life.”

Source : "Things I do not understand: religion, politics, & the American people" by Lynne Joseph, www.dailykos.com. January 17, 2008.
“Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books, reports, articles, testimony and other materials to push for and rationalize public policy positions that damage the public interest but benefit corporate bottomlines.”

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