Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are making all efforts, including using our personal contacts, to get U.S. multinationals to bid for our exploration blocks ... so far they have stayed away, but I am sure this time things will be different.

Where the dealers are making a market with a wide spread, but have in their possession an order to buy stocks at a higher price than they're bid, or for a lower price than they're offering, they want the investors and the institutions to see those better bids and offers.

Rob Enderle

When you've got multiple players going after a property, like anything, you get increased competition and people tend to bid higher.

Greg Biffle

When your name gets put in a sentence with Jeff Gordon, that's a bid deal. I have a lot of respect for Jeff Gordon.

We're still looking for donations of items for the auction. We're particularly interested in items that are related to athletics. Anything that people would want to own and bid on.

We had 11 or 12 bids for this one. We're getting preliminary bids in now and we expect the same kind of numbers.

We bid very low the first time, not knowing, and this time we had a much better idea. It was a much better bid this time around.

We bid this project right before everybody started having trouble with the steel. We're very fortunate, otherwise it would have cost 30 percent more than it would right now.

Unfortunately, moving the bid was the better alternative than keeping the schedule.

Leif Johansson

To place a bid on the table without Investor's consent is not meaningful,

A takeover bid is underscoring prospects for the sector, which has been benefiting from a recovery in consumer spending.

Peter Ueberroth

As we've said before, if we find a city that's capable to bid on the Olympic games ... we will be a much stronger candidate from the United States because of the strengthening of our ties.

As VNU seems to be willing to open up the books, chances of a bid on the whole company have further increased.

A bid in the low 90s would be the minimum for Lycos because Lycos brings so much more to the table than Terra does.

It's just one other bid of evidence from a national health standpoint that tells us we ought to be educating day care centers and grandparents, as well as parents

They (Old Mutual) have tried to make the offer as friendly as they can. I would put a pretty high probability on the bid going through.

They've expressed an interest in the State Fair, but they've also expressed their dislike of the bid process.

For example, a restaurant would have a much lower bid than, say, a mortgage company....

James Thomson

Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove/ An unrelenting foe to love;/ And when we meet a mutual heart,/ Come in between and bid us part?

Nick Lampson

For all the reasons named above, my colleagues and I urge the United Nations to consider Taiwan's bid to return to the U.N. with thought and wisdom.

It's on the Black Sea. It was a traditional summer resort for the old Soviet Union. It's at the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. In one of the pictures in the bid you see palm trees and snow. The city is in the 50s in the winter and then you have better snow there than in Turin.

There were no other bidders. He just threw $1,999 out the window. He only had to bid $1 more.

There may be other bids on the way. Not only in electricity, but in gas, water and other services as well.

There may be one or two dollars more in the bid but I think the price does reflect the business. If they had a fantastic product in late-stage testing, you'd offer more but you don't make a spectacular bid for a company that's not spectacular.

It means stronger growth. That will give a little bit of a bid for the dollar.

It's a nice price, but there might be some other parts of the business to be knocked off too. The management needs to make a fist of its strategy. Otherwise we'll see some bid activity.

It really depends on the bids and how smoothly that goes. It could be a couple of weeks; it could be a little longer.

I told them not to hold their breaths, but that we had an outside shot at an at-large bid. It was just a matter of the right teams winning their conference tournaments to make sure there are enough at-large bids left.

They haven?t given a bid to a (team that finished) 3-7 in three years.

Jerome Bettis

There's always a time when you have to call it quits. It is an ending. It has been an incredible ride. I came back to win a championship. Mission accomplished. Now I have to bid farewell.

As a result of this, people are calling for one or two more Fed moves. The dollar is going to be a little bid on this one.

The bottom line is that this is a low bid for a company that has enough earnings power to fuel a $30 stock price even with the heavy upfront spending for its case-ready products.

A year from now if things go really well, we could be out for bids, or have bids in hand.