Auctions Quotations

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

I love going to tag sales, to auctions.

We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.

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

The lesson here, and my advice for other developers, is to find a way that you can quantify for people what your product is worth. We were leery to do it ourselves, but being near Vetro when they did, the auction was a good technique for that. No one wants to be first, and the auction proved to people that others were buying and gave them that boost of confidence they needed.

I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.

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

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

If anyone thinks auctions are merely a collection of single sellers, they're mistaken,

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

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.

Last year, online retail totaled over $65 billion, up 26% over the prior year. That doesn't include auctions and travel, which take the number well over $100 billion.

President Bush's committed focus on wireless as a catalyst for technology growth is paying dividends. His leadership resulted in the historic agreement of the Department of Defense and other agencies to open up the frequencies, as well as the passage of key legislation a year ago that will make the 2006 auctions a reality.

We purchased this and other artwork during our cruise vacations over the years either from Princess Cruises or their parent company Carnival Corporation. I don't even know anymore if any of the artwork they sold us is original or they are worth anything. As far as I'm concerned they might all be worthless fake pieces of colored paper. I won't be surpised if these cruise ship art auctions with cheap glasses of champagne turn out to be a big multi million dollar scam.

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.

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.

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.

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

Yahoo uses elaborate filtering techniques to identify who users are and those providing auction goods. All (Yahoo) auctions can be searched by keywords and you can get the site to alert you to specific keywords as buying opportunities emerge.

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

We owe it to Hoosier taxpayers to look for every opportunity to save money, ... State government does not need one vehicle for every three employees, or 20 aircraft. These vehicle auctions alone have returned more than $1.5 million to state government, but the greater savings are in operations and maintenance no longer necessary.

When completed, this acquisition will expand our salvage auction business into the mid-Atlantic region. It's a good fit for Impact's expansion strategy in that it allows us to enter as a market leader with the only salvage auction physically located in northeast Pennsylvania, as well as filling in our coverage area between recently acquired salvage auctions located across Ohio and our existing strong presence in the country's Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.

Yields will have to go up for the auctions to do well. They are too low, I don't want to get in at these levels.

When we succeed at shutting auctions down on eBay, they go somewhere else.

We're putting out feelers and will be watching Christie's closely to see what we can learn, ... But since holding auctions in China has to be done through intermediaries we will see how things develop.

Bonds are likely to rebound following the auction. It looks like there will be plenty of demand from investors. A respite from auctions for the near future should help supply and demand conditions recover.

These auctions give Nine Inch Nails the ability to take money that might otherwise go into scalpers' pockets, and put it in the hands of a deserving organization.

Depending on competition from other bidders, you can generally buy properties at public auctions for 25 to 35 percent below market value.

Auctions are just one more way Dell is becoming a single-stop source for computer buyers.

This is going to make it hard for eBay to win in Asia. It totally reshapes the landscape for auctions in Asia.

This is one of the strongest auctions we've seen. It sold in the top end of the trading range for Class A (the most productive) soils. There is a good supply of Class A land that typically sells for $4,100 to $6,000 per acre depending on size, location and quality.

In 166,000 auctions and $25 million worth of property we've sold on eBay we've never had a stolen item because any crook with brains in his head isn't going to take stuff to someone who photographs them and puts them on public display.

CitySearch is committed to meeting the information and transaction needs of online consumers within our local communities. The ability for CitySearch users to participate in auctions both regionally and locally provides a substantial new opportunity for the company.

High court review will protect the integrity of the FCC's auctions program, which Congress has chosen as the best method of assigning scarce and precious spectrum resources to those that will put them to their most productive use,

The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be used to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the stagnation.

Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this.

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.

This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

The early members of the Helena Arts Council came to seek my help in getting some art auctions going to raise funds,

The long-anticipated auctions have weighed heavily on traders' minds in the futures market which, in part, has contributed to their recent price drop.

The lower demand at the five-year auction may continue in auctions in the coming weeks. This will lead investors to adopt a wait-and-see attitude for the time being.

The live auction will have three rounds of auctions with live music in between.

Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one or two ‘ex-congressmen turned lobbyists’ who know the ropes when it comes to pocketing a few dozen who still serve.

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.

Publication - is the auction of the mind...

A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.