Jack Bankowsky, editor of Artforum. “Bankowsky implied that mainstream New York intellectuals disdain for ‘art world yahoo faux scholars’ was often well founded. “I
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Commerzbank chairman Klaus Peter Miller
I was in the belief that the best supervised of all banking systems was in New York. To me, the Fed and the SEC
Commerzbank chairman Klaus Peter Miller
Why should you pay $20 million to a 32 year old trader?He uses the office space, the IT, the business card with a first
Nickolas Logsdail, gallery owner
The nowness of now, which is quite obsessive, is actually a reflection of the consumerism you see in the whole culture.
Robert Storr, art curator
I’m a hardworking, fifty-seven year old, straight, Anglo Saxon American guy. I’m not temperamentally inclined to try to second guess the times. I’m not
long term vs short term
The quality of a society can be measured by how many people are willing to sacrifice short term sensory pleasures for long term abstract
Micheal Lewis on Americans sacrificing long term for short term
the succession of financial bubbles, and the amassing of personal and public debt, Whybrow views as simply the expression of the lizard brained way
Micheal Lewis’ driver
She also claims she can guess at sight whether a person, especially a man, is from the east or west. “West Germans are much
investor activist Kenneth Steiner
Institutional investors have been horribly negligent in what I consider their fidcuciary duty to the people who invest with them and to the country