Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

The thing I have the most problem with is the discount. Each and every percent hurts me. Some guy that owns three stations in Reno can come in here and bid 25 percent less than I can.

Our experience with previous bids has taught us a great deal about the needs and aspirations of the IOC,

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.

It's probably because this damage was a lot less than had been anticipated, ... Prices were bid up last week on the idea there would be some great loss in refinery capacity.

It's potentially a huge economic draw. We have a good track record of hosting events and this will enable us to bid for regional tournaments.

It's unprecedented. This is a blowout bid for the state.

It's unlikely that their first bid would be their last bid.

Does he council you better who bids you, ''Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Doing well in this tournament can do a lot of things to prepare us for the NCAA. It could solidify our bid and give us a higher seed. At the same time, we've got one game to worry about right now.

Then, welcome each rebuff / That turns earth's smoothness rough, / Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go!

The International Rugby Board will put a tender out for bids later this year. While it is up to the directors of the union to take a decision, I think we will put forward a bid again.

The Fed is toward the end of its rate hikes. Equities and bonds got a bid because the Fed talked about maybe finishing its tightening.

I'm glad they stood by their deadline. Hopefully, that puts us in a good light in that we're the only ones who bid on both tournaments.

I'm glad that there is a second bidder, but the second bid is not much better than the first.

It's incredible momentum. The market just seems to have taken up from where it left off in 2005 with a lot of cash washing around from all the bids going on and a lot of bid speculation still about.

The new bid competitively pushes into the range (of independent valuations) without breaking the back of the entity post acquisition.

It's still a possibility. But the valuation is high, and one thing we learnt from the J&J bid for Guidant is they are very sensitive to valuation.

It's still a possibility. But the valuation is high, and one thing we learned from the J&J bid for Guidant is they are very sensitive to valuation.

John Williams

It's not ethical. As auctioneer you sit on the fence between buyers and sellers. We get hundreds of absentee bids and I would hate people to think, 'Oh, he's taken a higher bid.

The bids then come to us in an e-mail, and we update (the page) every day.

The bids on the tennis courts will come in very soon.

The bids came in $700,000 over budget, ... We were committed to being good stewards of the community's money.

The bid is ill-conceived, poorly structured and offers Patrick shareholders a diluted interest in the high-quality businesses Toll wants.

John Lawson

Stockholders should sit tight and enjoy the ride. A key question will be whether PSA ups the bid to either force Dubai Ports World to pay more or to get control of the business.

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.

It's on the Black Sea. It was a traditional summer resort for the old Soviet Union. It's at the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. In one of the pictures in the bid you see palm trees and snow. The city is in the 50s in the winter and then you have better snow there than in Turin.

It's always a surprise to get bid prices. Things may be changing if the private sector is slowing down. We'll find out.

It means stronger growth. That will give a little bit of a bid for the dollar.

It's a nice price, but there might be some other parts of the business to be knocked off too. The management needs to make a fist of its strategy. Otherwise we'll see some bid activity.

It really depends on the bids and how smoothly that goes. It could be a couple of weeks; it could be a little longer.