Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

If you default on your Visa bill, nobody comes to repossess your refrigerator or auction off your shoes. The biggest penalty you'll face is trouble getting future credit.

Today, the first auction of 30-year Treasury bonds in (almost) five years is expected to go well.

We have had some discussions with staff at the Justice Department regarding eBay and the online trading business generally. We believe the contact with DOJ may have been prompted by auction listing aggregators, such as Bidder's Edge...our dispute with Bidder's Edge fundamentally is a commercial one that concerns eBay's right to prevent unauthorized trespassing into its computer system, can use eBay content in a manner which confuses and misleads eBay users.

When the big-screen TV hit the thousands last year, everybody was paying attention. I don?t think ?intense? is the right word, but it had everyone?s attention. The auction benefits the YMCA, and people can get a top-quality item. It?s a win-win situation for everyone.

Mark Bryan

We haven't used it for years, and we were really looking for something to do with it, so this is the perfect solution: pimp it and sell it as an auction item.

Julie has been working nonstop, and she's still creating. She sent her family away on vacation and I don't think she's slept in two weeks. The clothes are so amazing; she has really managed to capture the personality of the celebrity in each outfit. Our greatest hope is that this will be so successful it will inspire a bigger auction next year.

Judging from the current sugar price level, the January auction was largely a failure.

It is considered a poor auction with indirect bidders less than last month's two-year note.

Freddy Adu

I'm shocked by the devastation. I'm hoping that this MLS auction in some small way may be of help in the recovery efforts.

Freddy Adu

I'm shocked by the devastation, ... I'm hoping that this MLS auction in some small way may be of help in the recovery efforts.

We are now in auction mode. They finally put a respectable bid on the table.

Items are sent in for the auction from all over the world and people bring them with them when they come for the convention. Often they are selling things so that they buy other bits and pieces and keep collecting.

We hope that tens of thousands of people will take a look. It's also timed with the Video Music Awards, Jennifer Lopez is up for an award. It will help drive traffic, having auctions coordinated with these events.

Which was basically the community telling us there is a need for an auction house.

We don't serve drinks or ice cream in foam containers -- everything is placed into authentic glassware I basically obtained from auctions or yard sales.

We encourage only those with genuine and serious interest in the auction to place their bids.

Dick Miller

We do this in preparation of our auction that will be in November.

Unfortunately Woodbine Racetrack is not a venue that will be available for this year's sale, but we're thrilled to be able to offer the Canadian Open at a terrific facility like Country Heritage Park. We've been hosting the auction on Sundays in recent years, but a Wednesday format allows us to proceed with as little inconvenience as possible to horsemen and potential buyers.

Thus we have plans to capitalize on that growth through network expansion and evolution and perhaps through other strategic initiatives, including participation in the upcoming spectrum auctions both on our own, or potentially with partners.

We are pursuing this lawsuit to ensure that the ICC follows the laws that expressly call for consumers to be protected from the inflated rates that would result if the ICC approves this unauthorized auction process,

New auctions will satisfy an unusual coincidence of needs on the supply and demand side of the fixed-income debt markets.

Tim Brady

On the auction side, it is a person-to-person payment, and right now they have to do that off line. The reason this is great for Yahoo! is that it really lowers the barrier for those transactions to take place.

I was still working for the county when we decided to try getting this auction going. Since we were renting the building from the county, I figured it would be best not to also be working for them, so I retired again.

Basically, investors are waiting for today's 20-year bonds auction results and are also closely watching movement in the equities market.

If a child scored a 300 in reading last year and the score improved to 350 this year, the child and their parents would each receive the increased difference between the two scores in tickets to use as cash in an auction of many large-ticket items at the beginning of the next school year. The kids may use their tickets separately or combined with parents' to bid on items such as big-screen televisions, bicycles, DVD players and more.

Good auction results show continuing inflows of foreign funds into the U.S., supporting the dollar.

He is the magical name in our field, but they're incredibly rare. The last major Van Gogh portrait to come to auction was in 1998 and prior to that in 1990.

Paul Levine

Greenspan's comments will be watched, as well as the Treasury auctions over the next few days and the trade balance Friday.

If this auction doesn't go well, you might want to take a long lunch then go home.

I'd like to see the auction extended all night and into the next day.

We also train our investor clients to develop win-win scenarios that benefit both the homeowner in distress and the investor. That way the troubled homeowner can sell their way out of foreclosure and conserve some equity for a new start, and the investor can realize a reasonable profit on resale of the home. That's much better than seeing the owner lose everything in an auction on the courthouse steps.

Whether that's bad news for the upcoming auctions depends on whether you take a cup-half-empty or cup-half-full perspective.

We would try to block the auction if they try to sell the license. It's city policy that we do that. The license is for the business that you give it to.