I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.”
– Groucho Marx
It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist.
– Raymond Chandler
