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?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 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're not convinced about the Rentokil story. Even if he comes in, I don't think there's much upside so there's risk to the downside. There's not going to be a full bid for cash at 180p-plus so there's not much upside to it." ()

Jacques Rogge

Madrid had a very good bid and was only two votes short of reaching the final round of voting.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

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

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.

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.

The price that I think you'd have to pay for St. Jude would be even more expensive than what Guidant is being bid for today.

The price of crude has $10 worth of fear in it and $10 worth of speculation and when Wall Street isn't afraid, they don't bid the price up so high.

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

Larry Walker

Softball Canada wants us to bid on the next one right away,

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.

Akihito

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.