Helen Baxendale

It will be very exciting to watch how the industry responds to filmmakers getting closer and closer to their audiences - and they must, as for too long it has been quite impossible for filmmakers to actually get anywhere near to revenues arising from their work. Too many middlemen!

English Actress

Richard J. Roberts

The way health care is funded in the U.S. is not sustainable. People are being kept alive who are probably better off dead. The cost of health care is too high, and you don't get much for it - it's twice as high in the U.S. as elsewhere, and it's because of the middlemen.

English Scientist

Chris Larsen

A distributed ledger is basically a shared database that allows institutions to directly send and receive money in a trustworthy fashion without a middleman. As a result, we have the capacity to connect the world's payment systems for the first time.That's a big deal.

American Businessman

Eric Clapton

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

British Musician

Kalki Koechlin

I like social media, as it cuts out the middleman. You can be yourself, you can't be misquoted, and it's also useful for me to get information about my theatre shows across to people.

French Actress

Freddie Wong

We have an audience, the ability to fund our own projects, own our own projects, the ability to display our projects unencumbered by any middlemen. That's the perfect scenario.

American Director

Graham Linehan

With piracy, people think it's about getting stuff for free. It's not - it's about getting rid of the middleman that stands between you and your enjoyment of the film or music.

Irish Comedian

Peter Fenton

In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

Ben Carson

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

American Scientist

Peter Max

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

American Artist

Middlemen facilitate agreement by conveying messages between groups who may not communicate directly.

Negotiation Helper

A middleman should remain neutral to gain trust from both parties in a negotiation.

Impartial Facilitator

In some cultures, using a middleman is common for respecting privacy or tradition in transactions.

Cultural Context

Middlemen play a key role in moving products from manufacturers to consumers.

Supply Chain Role

The price increases when a middleman adds a mark-up to the cost for their profit.

Mark-up Costs

Middlemen can make buying and selling more efficient by handling logistics and distribution.

Business Efficiency

 the projects that I've gotten the most feedback out of are I've had the most success and are ones where I've interacted with things directly and that's what these brands did they cut out the middleman they cut out their agencies and said maybe these agencies don't have my best interests in mind I'm gonna deal directly with the artist I'm gonna work with him to create something different something that's going to get

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 What's incredible for me is the projects that I've gotten the most feedback out of, or I've had the most success in, are ones where I've interacted with things directly. And that's what these brands did. They cut out the middleman, they cut out their agencies and said, "Maybe these agencies don't have my best interest in mind. I'm going to deal directly with the artist.

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 way he could uncork he persuaded one European shipper to break ranks and began to pursue the possibility of organizing his own shipping lines to and from Europe to cut out these middlemen as you might expect this did not entirely please the British trade council down the coast to the latest in

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 and different sources may disagree, not only opinions, but on the facts themselves. So how do you get the truth, or something close? One of the best ways is to get the original news unfiltered by middlemen. Instead of articles interpreting a scientific study or a politician's speech,

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 horn from animals which have been poached has certainly been tracked down and the folk who've been involved either the purchase or the middlemen have been caught supporting to naba and supporting in other organizations like Frankfurt making sure it's well managed the

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 They can do so via a stable middleman, optical fiber, and make hyperfast wireless connectivity a reality. For all of human history, light has gifted us with sight and heat, serving as a steady companion while we explored and settled the physical world.

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 like me all these middlemen are cut out which helps me make more money of my crop and the local food movement is even inspiring more young people to start farming that's good because in the u.s. right now farmers are getting older and throughout the

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 Then, there is intermediation. How does the platform act as a middleman in the moments of truth of cooperation? Taobao, Alibaba's online shopping platform, does intermediation when it acts as an escrow agent between sellers and buyers.

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 totally open-ended question and i posed this question both to you know his opponents like the police and military but also to people he's worked with like the middlemen who helped broker sales or to

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 towns and track down middlemen and I've gone undercover in the biggest market for wildlife products in the world China

Middleman

A person who helps in negotiations or transactions between two parties.

Often appears as...

A person who buys goods from producers and sells them to retailers or consumers.

Often appears as...

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