Takers Quotations

Suddenly, the ad sales guys have gone from the heady times of last year when they were order takers to today's reality of working the phones hard.

Some people are risk takers and like to do that stuff. If they're going to do it, they should take the avalanche course.

We are in touch not only with the hostage takers but with the hostages themselves.

We consider trading down when the guys that we projected would be there, aren't there. They're all gone and we have to go to our next group, our next grade level. That's when we'll make the calls. Those guys are gone, let's go to our next group. The value is less because we graded them less. Let's see if we can get some takers and get another pick later on.

We had a rash of injuries at the center position last season - we went through seven of them. When we were trading Chris Jackson, we were looking to get a starting center, but there were no takers due to the vital importance of this position.

Commodity companies have in the past been price takers rather than price makers, and that won't change dramatically, but if you have greater control of your supply, that makes it more favorable to the mining companies.

Folks from D.C. come up here from time to time to look at a wide variety of things. We don't get very many takers in the wintertime, but we always offer.

The thing with Jazz is that it's kind of like a risk takers kind of music.

Profit takers are expected to move in to the ring, not surprisingly influenced by New York's decline during the end of the day.

They're certainly not achieving their cost of capital, although they are moving in the right direction. At the end of the day, they are very much price takers in a number of their core businesses.

Everybody's known about this for ages. They put (the overall company) up for sale and there were no takers at the price they wanted. For this to happen the way it happened, it is pretty obvious.

They are the two most consistent penalty kick takers we have. But normally if (a player) is involved in a play, I do not let that individual take it. That player might be too emotional, and it's bitten me before. But at the last second, I said, 'You guys make the decision. One of you is going to take it.' I think they made the right decision.

I'll tell you what, it's a huge loss for the Red Sox. Personally I think Theo was very, very smart and intelligent about understanding baseball players, understanding what kind of team to bring in and what group of guys could gel together. I think he's proven that for three years that he was there. We won a championship, we won 95 games three straight seasons. He's been tremendous for myself personally. I wish him the best of luck, I'm sure he'll have a lot of takers out there.

The futures indicate a lower start with profit takers and scalpers to the fore.