Famous Quotes & Sayings

If we can place high in both tournaments, we will be strongly considered to receive a bid to the national tournament.

I have enormous interest on this lot. This may blow you away. I have triple order bids of $10,000 on this lot.

I did not use my position on P&Z to better my company. And the only money I can ever remember receiving from Smith County was for jury duty. I think we all know there are very strict regulations on conflicts of interest. I don't intend to become county judge just so I can bid on county work.

I can imagine that a bid does actually happen and I'd be happy with somewhere under 900 pence. It has got predictable earnings and that's attractive.

I can't recall, in the 40 years I've been following the steel industry, ever seeing a bid that was raised after already winning.

From our standpoint, it sounded like there was not much indication that they'd change their mind. They were seeing what they could present to management (in a bid to stay).

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 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.

We?d like to be able to implement different ways of looking at the service that we need, but the truth is, if the businesses that do this are not yet prepared to bid on those methods, when the industry has not reached the point you?re at yet, we have little choice.

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,

We are going to make a pretty strong bid to defend our New England title.

We did not get a bid we could accept.

This process creates an impression that the bid may have been launched hurriedly.

We're anticipating getting bids back by Feb. 20, but that date could move a little bit.

We did put a bid out for that specific plant. I do know we've had several conversations with them.

We want to bid it now, in order to open up by Thanksgiving or Christmas time, because golf courses here make most of their money from Thanksgiving to Easter. That's the game plan.

Akihito

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

To me, these bids are classic top of the market stuff. The Irish property market can't defy the laws of gravity forever. I'm trying to persuade my wife to sell our house now before prices fall.

We are looking at the possibility of a joint bid but it's too early to tell,

We are looking at opening that project for competitive bid sometime in early fall.

Douglas Davis

(Traders) usually bid the market up in the first week of September and then start clearing the decks for the September quarterly end.

We have made a bid for Lee Johnson, but it has been rejected,

We didn't really expect the bid to come. It was just a great opportunity and second chance for us to build on what we had talked about in that locker room.

The decision-making process, with FCM leaving, resulted in my needing to make a decision faster than going with a large bid process, ... We sole-sourced it, and made the decision with counsel from the governor's office and Legislature.

We have known for a while that Microsoft was making a very serious bid to increase its presence on mobile devices.

David Gill

Our plans were to bid for the player (Rooney) in summer 2005, but Newcastle United's bid and Everton's subsequent interest in selling him, forced us to accelarate our plans or risk losing him,