broker quotes

If we are to negotiate, I envisage that we shall playan essentially modest role; that of an honest broker who really intends to do business.

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  Speech to the Reichstag,19 Feb, on preventing war in Europe.

A broker is a man who takes your fortune and runs it into a shoestring.

- Alexander Humphreys Woollcott
Quoted in Samuel Adams AlexanderWoollcott (1945), ch.15.