A winner never whines.

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.

The only thing that counts is your dedication to the game. You run on your own fuel; it comes from within you.

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

Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.

I 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.

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