Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Tavares

We're trying to bid for the Memorial Cup when it comes back to the OHL and we're getting a new arena, ... It will be a long time, but I think it will be a great experience too.

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,

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.

I said to him that we would rather lose the bid than enter into that type of arrangement.

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.

Local fund investors bid up steel stocks, as they had a lot of idle money after unloading technology stocks.

Long and Foster said they had no clue that either of the parties that put bids in on the house were married, ... He submitted the contract in his own name, and when he went to see the house, he went with two other men.

Tony Blair

London's bid is important to me, the government and to our country and I would be immensely proud to help bring the games back to London for first time in 64 years,

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.

Mark Johnson

It is difficult to take this bid seriously, given the number of broad-based and highly restrictive conditions which have been included.

I think today's bid was a 'don't-come-near-me' bid.

it is likely that (Lucio Tan) will match the bid price.

Peter Ueberroth

It is important to any future bid city from the United States that this be reversed. It's disappointing. This will impact IOC members negatively. This may be the only example of a country prohibiting competition on an international scale.

I watched Spectacular Bid break his maiden (27) years ago, and he reminded me of him.

Pat's comments created a so-called 'flight to quality' bid in both the September long bonds and the Sep. dollar cntracts.

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

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.

Typically, we refer issues to the prosecutor when we find instances of misappropriation of funds, something that rises to the level of criminal activity. We don't think we saw that here. We saw places where monitoring wasn't great and bid law compliance wasn't great.

We reviewed documentation. Mr. Lee had the lowest bid on four of the five contracts.

We ended up being the only group to bid on it in the end.

Cheryl Hines

My biggest fear is that no one will bid on my envelope, ... So have pity on me and bid on it.

Whoever likes Jordan is going to bid high.

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 intend to run the Olympics the way we did the bid -- on time and within budget.