Famous Quotes & Sayings

If we have the opportunity to rebid, we will do so. I think we had an excellent bid and a high-quality presentation.

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

William Butler Yeats

She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

Michael Park

Since the summer, Markko has been happier at the wheel of the 307 WRC and the engineers at Peugeot Sport have a clearer understanding of the sort of set-up that suits him. Everything's moving in the right direction and that's the main thing, both with a view to defending Peugeot's chances in its bid to win the manufacturers' title as well as to maintaining our own, very real chance of finishing in the top-three in the drivers' championship. We haven't given up!

Since the offer on January 27, the value of the underlying bid has improved.

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.

Don Maloney

He's smart and he's a very good skater. The question is if he's mature enough to play with the big boys at a tough position. It's a tough position to break into the NHL at when you are 20 years old. I think he'll have a strong camp and will make a serious bid to play in New York this season.

MBD has been in business for 16 years. We have bid over 1,000 other jobs, I'm certain, and in all that time, we have only withdrawn one other bid that I know of. We have a history of being a very professional bidder, and we made a mistake.

Jerome Bettis

It is an ending. It's been an incredible ride. I decided to come back and win a championship. Mission accomplished. With that I have to bid a farewell.

Just because they're the lowest bid doesn't mean they're going to be able to produce,

J&J made a bid that was the minimum bid to be considered in the game. Now Boston is testing whether they need to go higher. I think they will if they need to, but if $68 is J&J's price, why pay more now?

Large pharmaceutical companies have grossly bid up valuations.

I think companies that are selling at the lower P/Es, obviously, carrying some question marks in investors' minds, are the ones that you vote for here. So, Wachovia Bank, for example, looks interesting to us, ... But, generally, I think the lower price/earnings multiple financials are where you want to look right now. The quality merchandise has been bid up. And I think this spread right now says move from the quality financial down scale a little bit for the lower-priced ones.

Sure, it's hard. But it would be much worse if we didn't prepare, got the bid and we weren't ready. We'll focus, train hard and hope the cards fall our way.

The $20 bid was a little bit of a surprise. It reflects a high level of conviction in synergies and sends a pre-emptive signal to other bidders.

Whoever likes Jordan is going to bid high.

I won't throw a shipper out if somebody else can pay me a nickel a mile more, because I don't want the shipper to throw me out when a carrier bids a nickel a mile less. But if I'm losing money on freight, I've either got to stop hauling it or get a price increase.

We intend to screen the bids for eligibility on the day following the submission of the bids and will select from the eligible bidders the winning bid on the second day after submission of the bids.

We continue to be fully invested. Valuations remain reasonable. The number of bids shows investors that everybody has cash, everybody is rich.

Doug Sanders

We put a bid on it at the state tournament this past summer. The state will look to have 150 golfers each weekend.

For them to bid more than they originally bid would have signaled to other potential acquisitions that they didn't have the financial discipline they've always been known for.

I reminded the board that that's what you do. You save taxpayer money by letting businesses bid on this.

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,

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.

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.

J. J. Johnson

We are open to talking to strategic partners who could buy into DC Air. We are open to discussion but haven't received any bids yet.

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.

We have already received bids from six to seven countries who are willing to play host to the (Twenty-20) event.

We couldn't complete our drawings, which meant we couldn't get bids for the work.

We have two bids in each side. As far as I'm concerned that's very good.

We'll put the project out to bid and carefully examine the bids when they come in.