Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

The sellers in the auction have the power rather than the buyer. They set the date for the auction and the closing, they set the price and the property is sold as-is. The owner is the power-broker in the sale.

The spread supply had been a factor weighing on the Treasury market and when the 10-year TIPS auction didn't go terribly well, that compounded the issue.

Additionally, the auction will also introduce new media like installation, sculpture and photography.

After careful consideration we concluded that a sale of the Company through a Chapter 11 auction process will best maximize the return for all stakeholders of the Company and is the best way for the Company to continue providing the level of service its customers expect.

Some people were concerned that with yields below 2 percent there might not be enough demand for the bonds. However, the auction went okay and that spurred buying of futures.

This is really the only formal black tie optional event that's held in Allen. We always have a lot of fun. A nice dinner, great opportunity for auction items and we have music for dancing.

Kage Baker

Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.

Maria Miller

We usually don't do it that way. If he's trading goods and services and intangibles and things that have an auction value, then we just estimate when it's not pure money.

Energy markets have proven to be volatile, unpredictable and trending dramatically upwards. This auction would expose consumers to all of the risks of the market.

Even if the auction does not go to where some people expected it to, the stock had a great run up. I just don't see a lot of upside at this point.

Bidders could get away from the auction for days and weeks at a time and put their energy elsewhere.

Twenty-year bonds have risen too far given the auction tomorrow. Traders are likely to try and back up the yield to closer to 2 percent for the auction.

Today, most of us think about eBay as an auction site, but a third of the items that transact on eBay are actually fixed price.

There is some short-term concern in the market that the auction could be delayed.

We've got a lot of supply so that's putting Treasuries onto a bearish footing. People aren't expecting a good result from the auction and in the short term yields can push higher.

We will auction one-of-a-kind items, some of our newest Sharper Image Design products, as well as established best sellers.

Those that thought the central-bank buying would not be there for the auction have been proven wrong.

McGregor Scott

This was the most internet bidders we've ever seen at a Ritchie Bros. auction in Ohio.

We expect the white flags to fly over Madrid and Helsinki in the next two to three days. The auction will possibly raise about $35.5 billion, that's just around the U.K. figure. It may just top that.

We expect the auction to do phenomenally well for a couple of reasons,

There's relief around the industry that the final 3G auction is over, ... The next sale of licenses is in France next year and that has been factored into company spending because it's a fixed-fee beauty contest.

There's no panic, most of the auction was hedged by dealers.

We teach our investor clients to develop win-win scenarios that will benefit both the distressed homeowner and the investor. The troubled homeowner conserves some equity for a new start, and the investor realizes a reasonable profit. That's much better than seeing the owners lose everything, including their credit, in an auction on the courthouse steps.

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.

Many investors were sidelined awaiting the outcome of the 20-year JGB auction while firmer equity prices also kept market participants at bay.

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.

But it's one of the most exclusive in terms of the audience that will be holding it in their hands, and it will have a life long after the event. We've been told that these become collectibles and that some of them will be stolen and that they'll wind up being sold on eBay (the online auction site).

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

Online auction sites are an excellent way for people from around the world to buy and sell goods. We strongly believe in the convenience and global reach of the virtual marketplace. Unfortunately, a number of online sellers are undermining trust in the system by using the Internet to hawk illegal products to unsuspecting consumers.

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.

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.