Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Should foreign investors, who have helped fund U.S. twin deficits, show weaker demand at the 10-year auction and the trade deficit widens, that may make it easier to sell the dollar.

Britney Spears

Since bidding for my jewel-encrusted bra in the eBay charity auction has exceeded our original expectations, I'm concerned that some of you may be confusing this bra for something that it's not.

Mr. McKenzie has an incredible track record in developing the Lake Fork area, and this auction will enable him to sell a substantial portion of his inventory in a single day. With 28 sites selling absolute, it's a rare opportunity for some people to obtain a site for their lake home at a great price.

We hope to serve over 100 dinners tonight and we would really like to thank the local businesses that donated the silent auction items.

Yesterday's auction showed strong demand for debt and people were looking for a reason to buy.

We've seen there's demand for longer-dated securities. The auction will go quite well today.

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.

We use that money very judiciously, and it's always difficult at auctions because you never know where the prices will go.

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

Viktor Yushchenko

Today's auction shows that investors can trust Ukraine,

Boris Nemtsov

Those foreign cars that are being used now will be sold at open auctions and replaced by domestic-made cars,

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,

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.

Sophia Amoruso

Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches you the beauty and power of presentation, and how you can make magic out of nothing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I am just calling all my buddies around the league and equipment managers and telling them to send whatever they come up with. Instead of throwing stuff away, put it up for auction and people can use their money for a good cause.

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.

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

The rain poured, ... It started Friday afternoon, stopped for a while -- about the time the livestock auction was supposed to start it just poured and it rained pretty much the whole night.

It gets the refunding off on the right foot, but it's still difficult to draw conclusions about how well the five- and 10-year note auctions will do based on the three-year auction.