Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

This isn't just about getting bids from companies that are ready to supply right now. If we like someone's product, even if they only have two employees, we'll work with them and show them how they can gear up to supply us.

The weakness in the stock market, the fact that the charts and trends look so bad, is going to keep an underlying bid under the bond market.

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.

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.

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.

J. Taylor

You saw some very good dollar bids after the number. The report is very dollar positive, very interest rate positive.

Even if he comes in there is not going to be a full bid for cash at 180p-plus so there is not much upside to it." ()

During the Olympic process, I was approached by a third party who claimed to represent IOC members. He was certainly known well with the Olympic movement, and he said we wouldn't win the bid unless we provided commercial endorsements,

Far from being a serious bid to build an Asian-Pacific colossus, the bid is a crude maneuver to stop Patrick competing with Toll in Australia. Patrick doesn't need Toll.

Richard Burton

Do what thy manhood bids thee do from none but self expect applause? Henoblest lives and noblest dies, who makes and keeps his selfmadelaw.

Richard Burton

Do what thy manhood bids thee do,/ From none but self expect applause:/ He noblest lives and noblest dies/ Who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

This thing has been bid down and down. But I think on fundamentals now, taking a two to three-year view, people have got more comfortable with the level that we're paying.

We should get a bid if we do that -- whether we will or not I don't know. There are certainly more than four ACC teams in the top 64 in the country. To say the ACC has only four teams in the top 64 is laughable.

We are still kind of stuck in this 4.67-4.77 percent range and I guess the reversal in oil is what kind of took a chunk out of equities and resumed a modest bid in bonds.

We didn't like it when they bid $72 a share and like it even less at $80 a share.

We had seven vendors who came to our pre-bid meeting, and four bids were received for the work.

Sharad Pawar

We have decided to make a joint bid for Asia.

Bonds are well bid on the theory that this will slow down the U.S. economy,

What's 77 centavos? ... We will definitely match that bid very soon.

What I've come here today to tell you is, if you make a claim on the bid, you will in essence be trying to punish me for my mistake to the tune of about $75,000. I'm here to tell you that I bid this job for you in good faith, just like we bid many many many other jobs, and when we're not low, no one compensates us for all the expenses we go through in bidding.

We want to optimize value, but that doesn't necessarily mean the maximum bid will win,

We want to give everyone an opportunity to bid on the jersey they want.