Quotes on Middlemen

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

I...am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light...in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required.

The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.

The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.