Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Robert M. Edsel

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman Robert M. Edsel.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Robert M. Edsel

Robert Morse Edsel is an American businessman and author. He has written three non-fiction books - Rescuing Da Vinci (2006), Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (2007); and Saving Italy (2013) - chronicling the recovery of artwork stolen by Nazi Germany during World War II. A film based on his book, The Monuments Men, directed by and starring George Clooney, was released in February 2014.

To save the culture of your allies is a small thing. To cherish the culture of your enemy, to risk your life and the life of other men to save it, to give it all back to them as soon as the battle was won… it was unheard of, but that is exactly what Walker Hancock and the other Monuments Men intended to do.
Elderly people are like heat-seeking missiles for people who really have an interest in listening. — © Robert M. Edsel
Elderly people are like heat-seeking missiles for people who really have an interest in listening.
We can use laws to prosecute and make people think twice before going to do something like blowing up Buddhas and other things.
Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die a slow death in bureaucracy and that explains a lot of the problems.
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