The key to winning is poise under stress.

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

I 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

By 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.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

Feathered with hoarfrost, skeletal trees loom closer; fog shrouded arches.

What we have currently available is what we have available.