Bid Quotations

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

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

Even an unsuccessful Olympic bid can be the source of change within a city if organizers adhere to their vision.

I once called construction companies to bid on an addition to the school library so that there would suddenly be people outside, measuring the building. 'Who authorized this?' the principal would ask. The answer: 'Howie Mandel.'

One of the bitter ironies of this to me, this whole thing, is that we were so fundamentally superior in our bid to anyone else in the world that everyone knew we were going to win,

If we go forward, we want to be certain that the city has an opportunity to be competitive. Given how the bid landscape has changed, we need to be certain before we ask any U.S. city to do all that is required in the bid process.

Nobody comes in to bid on that. They wait for the body to stop twitching, then swoop down and pick the meat off the carcass.

Nimbus was the clear winner with the highest bid in all combinations.

Nimbus won the bid from among eight bidders.

Only a little more / I have to write, / Then I'll give o'er, / And bid the world good-night.

Now that we're in a more open economy, and there's a lot more opportunity to get goods from overseas, if manufacturers are operating at full capacity, there's less likelihood that somebody will bid up prices at a domestic producer if they can get it somewhere else.

Now we're all working toward putting a solid bid before the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) as soon as possible,

People were falling over themselves to bid on this (Diebenkorn) work. There was some frantic bidding in the sale room and on the telephone.

I didn't watch it. You never really want to cheer for Florida in situations like that, but we really knew we couldn't take the chance of another team slipping in there and taking the automatic bid and taking away from our chances.

I did not use my position on P&Z to better my company. And the only money I can ever remember receiving from Smith County was for jury duty. I think we all know there are very strict regulations on conflicts of interest. I don't intend to become county judge just so I can bid on county work.

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

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

If they are interested in shopping it around, Tupelo will actively pursue the right to bid for the tournament." ()

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." ()

We're excited anytime there's an offer of an NCAA Tournament bid at the end of the rainbow. This is a great opportunity to show what we're made of, and we're pumped for the occasion.

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

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.

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!

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

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

Short messaging services has been the driver of the growth for these companies and I'm not sure if the average investor realizes this. They see an Internet company that recently turned profitable and that's been enough ammo to bid the stocks higher.

Should bid estimates come in higher than is determined proper, the project would be sent out again for bids.

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.

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.

I can imagine that a bid does actually happen and I'd be happy with somewhere under 900 pence. It has got predictable earnings and that's attractive.

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.

Fox just had to overpay on a rights fee basis for the Celtics games in order to keep the lights on the Boston market, ... So they're saving a lot of money owning the Dodgers. If the Dodgers' broadcast rights were up for public bid right now, they could go to an astronomical sum, and that would mean either a loss of programming for Fox or far greater costs.

From the work we've done over the last few days, from inside Patrick, we're not hearing anything about anyone taking a rival bid seriously and we're getting on with the business of making the takeover happen.

Fund players have featured heavily on the bid across the day, taking platinum and silver as well most of the base complex to fresh highs today.

From our standpoint, it sounded like there was not much indication that they'd change their mind. They were seeing what they could present to management (in a bid to stay).

From one Olympic city to another, we salute London. The years of hard work, dedication and planning on behalf of the London bid team have resulted in a fantastic choice for the 2012 Summer Games,

If we sit back and don't do anything, and let it go on, of course the bid will be harmed.

If a child scored a 300 in reading last year and the score improved to 350 this year, the child and their parents would each receive the increased difference between the two scores in tickets to use as cash in an auction of many large-ticket items at the beginning of the next school year. The kids may use their tickets separately or combined with parents' to bid on items such as big-screen televisions, bicycles, DVD players and more.

I don't think it would be a surprise if they turned down a 3.7 billion-pound bid because it appears to value it in line with rival William Hill and doesn't seem to offer much of a control premium.

For the service provider, this exceptional value can mean the difference between winning a property bid or not, given the level of competition smaller Service Providers face today.

I don't think Xstrata are going to do anything apart from walk away with a check. This bid is 21 percent above their initial offer (for 20 percent of Falconbridge),

I bid you a fond and affectionate farewell,

Central banks don't rest at one rate for long. If only to impart a bid to the U.S. housing market, they (the Federal Reserve) may have to start cutting again as early as the end of the year.

Certainly the current supply fundamentals make it difficult to bid up prices much further.

I am very satisfied with the bid document. But before submitting, we will give one final look at the document April 17 in Dubai. Once our bid is accepted, we will decide where and when the matches will be played. But the four countries have agreed to host six matches each of the initial league phase.

But even with the 19.4 percent reduction, we know we are not the lowest bidder for the Northwest business. In the bid we put in for Northwest, we were in the middle of the pack.

I do not think stocks should have a bid premium built into them. That assumes that there is a good reason to buy them.

Businesses are running up against capacity constraints and have no choice but to hire, and that may bid up wages. Productivity is decelerating and inflation pressures keep creeping up.

Because of this and current management initiatives to reduce costs, we are skeptical about the prospect of a breakup bid for the group and recommend selling the shares.

To cut costs, some people might want to go with the cheapest bid but you should never do that. It's best to be right in the middle because the cheapest contractor might have missed something that they'll add back into the price later on, or they might not produce the caliber of work that you'd expect.

Has Wall Street paid too much for Amazon? Investors bid the stock up too much in anticipation of it growing faster than it's going to grow. But if Amazon keeps executing and making progress in keeping costs down, it can still work.

What you have to look at is what has been occurring in the foreign exchange markets. They (Bank of Japan) were rumored to be significant buyers on Friday and Monday, the (Treasury) market was bid up on Friday and Monday, so there's a very big risk that they've already put that money to work.

With more buyers than sellers nationally, what we're seeing is a natural pressure on home prices as buyers compete to bid on available properties. Fortunately, the historically low cost of debt service on a home purchase means that we have a comfortable buffer in most of the country because the typical family can afford to buy a home well above the median price.

We've got to make sure John David makes it back. I wouldn't count Mark out, he's done too well. Mark's gained more ground on him - he had a great spring. His bid to start has been enhanced by that.

We're on a tight timeline. We need to know what our costs will be if we're to bid on flying for Northwest or any other carrier.

We told you from the outset we would be disciplined and we wouldn't bid against ourselves, ... Consummating a transaction would have required us to give up substantially more Comcast shares than we originally proposed. That didn't make good financial sense, particularly given these results.

HP selectively bid on areas where we know we can do a great job and where focus was on core areas of importance to HP and GM.

He was steadfast. All of a sudden he's back because he's mad at L'Equipe ? Come on, ... If he hates the French so much why did he support the French bid for the (2012) Olympics?

He was steadfast. All of a sudden he's back because he's mad at L'Equipe? Come on, ... If he hates the French so much why did he suppoprt the French bid for the (2012) Olympics?

I always had serious doubts about whether it was ever going to translate into a serious bid given the fact it came to us through the media and there has been no contact with the club whatsoever. The outcome doesn't surprise me.

If someone came with a bid tomorrow, they'd have to wait.

If the deal value were to drop below $75, J&J might start to look like a better deal, although J&J's $71 bid no longer necessarily exists.

If it's all about money, if our entire Texas Legislature is just kind of up for bid to who can put the most money into campaigns, that's sad.

Going to the NCAA Tournament will help us in recruiting state kids. When they get recruited by big out of state schools I think this NCAA bid will help. We want to keep our talent and kids in state.

The rally is being driven by tech. Money's going into the sector across the board. There's been an underlying bid in the market and any time you think we're going to get a real sell-off, it doesn't happen.

There are shifting expectations on whether the Fed will pause or not after its meeting next week. Signals from the Fed that it may pause in June may see a bid for Treasuries.

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

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

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 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.

Past food service bid processes have lasted between nine and 12 months. During this process, a considerable amount of time is spent upon gathering input regarding service and price preferences from various elements of the campus. These inputs are then balanced and included in the bid specifications.

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

I saw what the amount was and thought it should have been higher. I made a bid and went to bed. The next day, I checked my e-mail and got the notice that I'd won. I think the package is worth way more than I paid for it.

Last year, as great as it was, it was like a fairy tale season. I think we appreciate this a heck of a lot more than we did the Fiesta Bowl bid last year.

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

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.

Large pharmaceutical companies have grossly bid up valuations.

People are bid up the market by the close to get ahead of the Fed on the hope of a 'Fed bounce' tomorrow (Tuesday), ... We're still well within the time frame of the Fed's monetary policy stimulating the economy, but people are just tired of waiting for it.

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

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?

Our goal this season is to take that next step and win the A-Sun's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. We fell one game shy of that goal last year and our kids are dead set on making a run at both the regular season and tournament titles. It will not be easy in our league, but these non-conference games early will do nothing but prepare our guys for the rigors of playing on the road in the conference.

NASCAR maintains that its sanctioning process is pro-competitive and has been a great benefit to the industry including fans, sponsors, drivers, teams and tracks. On the other hand, the Kentucky Speedway lawsuit, which is seeking a bid system, would likely provide a short-term financial windfall to NASCAR but would be disastrous to the long-term health of the sport.

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

I still wouldn't count Johnson & Johnson out from putting another bid in. They're doing a little bit of lobbying behind the scenes. They're interested.

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

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.

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.

I think the toughest thing is to bid adieu to our friendship with the people at Arizona State University. It's like moving from a good home filled with family.

Remarkably, under this pricing scheme, it is optimal for each advertiser to bid his actual value per click, regardless of what other advertisers do.

Retail banking remains a concern, as does unsecured lending. However, with bid speculation helping the valuation, this should provide support for the share price.

Right now, with where we are with this program ... we still have a lot of things that are out there on the table for us. One of them is to secure a bowl bid and play good football.

Other than Sheffield United (whose bid Miller effectively rejected), we've not had a phone call from any club about Kenny.

Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices that are unethical, like buying projects. They do not realise that such attempts will not make their child brighter or think over ideas.

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,

Our bid for Patrick is now full steam ahead.

Our bid is based on integrity, and whoever is fortunate enough to win should have the confidence that they have secured at least 50 per cent of the votes,

Our bid is continuing... Our bid wasn't conditional on obtaining 90 per cent.

Our bid is maxed out. We could not do any more.