Human Nature and Wealth
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What I learned from reading The Days of Duveen by S....
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Feb 20 2024 1h 4m
Chapter 1 2 mins
Duveen noticed that Europe had plenty of art and America had plenty of money, and his entire astonishing career was the product of that simple observationChapter 2 59 sec
The great American millionaires of the Duveen Era were slow-speaking and slow-thinking, cautious, secretive, and maddeningly deliberateChapter 3 2 mins
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There is an old two-part rule that often works wonders in business, science, and elsewhereChapter 5 1 min
Duveen had enormous respect for the prices he set on the objects he bought and sold. Often his clients tried, in various ways, to maneuver him into a position where he might relax his high standards, but he nearly always managed to keep themChapter 6 5 mins
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His enthusiasm was irrepressibleChapter 8 59 sec
Duveen felt that his educational mission was two fold —to teach millionaire American collectors what the great works of art were, and to teach them that they could get those works of art only through himChapter 9 3 mins
When you pay high for the priceless, you're getting it cheapChapter 10 59 sec
Certain men are endowed with the faculty of concentrating on their own affairs to the exclusion of what's going on elsewhere in the cosmos. Duveen was that kind of manChapter 11 5 mins
Monopoly was his methodChapter 12 2 mins
Duveen would pay the servants of staff that worked in the homes of his clients. This was the result: They developed a feeling that it was only fair to transmit to Duveen any information that might interest himChapter 13 6 mins
The art dealer Joseph Duveen was once confronted with a terrible problemChapter 14 16 mins
His clients felt better when they paid a lot. It gave them the assurance of acquiring rarity