My theory with the auctions has been to try to make them like a party, like a social event. If people are having a good time, talking with their friends, they're much more likely to bid.
Paul BrownIf you think you have a good idea, get into the marketplace as quickly as you can, using as little money as possible, and see what happens.
Paul BrownFootball is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.
Paul BrownI'm not a big TV watcher, but I know that Discovery is a teaching network. And they've been so awesome to me, I love those people.
Paul BrownBy nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or aesthetic value. You look to get the wholesale price and you hope for retail spikes periodically when you get two or three people in the audience that want the same thing.
Paul BrownThe only thing that counts is your dedication to the game. You run on your own fuel; it comes from within you.
Paul BrownI enjoy winning and very much dislike losing- but I did not allow either of them to obsess me. I was a silent loser, believing that if you won you said little, and if you lost you said even less
Paul BrownI like Modernism. I grew up around these sort of eclectic, heavily carved, baroque, rococo, highly ornamented styles that were in my life from the time that I was a child until now in my business life. So I like clean, straight, minimalist lines.
Paul BrownI can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines.
Paul BrownThe number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs of dams were on average 50% above their original estimate. Some designed to reduce flooding made it worse, and there were many unexpected environmental disadvantages, including the extinction of fish and bird species. Half the world's wetlands had been lost because of dams.
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