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.'

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.

When you've got multiple players going after a property, like anything, you get increased competition and people tend to bid higher.

Until now, finding out a current market value of any home, whether it's yours or one you want to bid on, has been quite difficult. We believe you shouldn't need a computer science degree or a real estate license to find out what a home is worth.

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 believe that Danaher's proposal is an attempt to coerce Cooper shareholders into accepting an opportunistic bid to acquire Cooper at a low price,

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.

Unless our people come back with some real surprises, we will be making a bid for the 2009 tournament. We think that with four very good arenas with almost every variety of seating capacities that we can have a strong bid.

Unfortunately, moving the bid was the better alternative than keeping the schedule.

To place a bid on the table without Investor's consent is not meaningful,

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 seen continued bid activity and earnings have been reasonably robust. The market has had a great run in the first quarter.

We have no problems if Australia or New Zealand or both combined want to bid for the tournament. We are confident about our bid given the huge commercial market for the sport in this region and the overwhelming interest it evokes among the people.

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.

When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.

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

This will place Sun Vista at the top of the list in Tampa Bay. Everybody who is anybody bid on this.

We did not get a bid we could accept.

What we're doing now is finishing up the final design work like surveying and mapping. We might put it out to bid in a month or five weeks. Hopefully we'll be in summer when work starts.

We hope to go to bid in December and begin construction in January,

We did put a bid out for that specific plant. I do know we've had several conversations with them.

We have said all along that anyone is free to bid. We feel American Airlines has the best bid because it preserves almost all of the jobs, and more importantly, offers a major worldwide network into which we can integrate TWA, which we feel is much better than an offer that would try to operate it as a single small carrier.

We use the funding estimates as a place holder because we do not know what the actual cost will be until we begin building. It's not until you actually bid the project that you'll have an idea of what it's going to be and even then you many have to adjust it again.

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!

This process creates an impression that the bid may have been launched hurriedly.

There are very few events that have significant reach anymore. That's the paradox of Super Bowl advertising -- why does a 30-second spot cost $2.5 million? There is a pool of money which has remained pretty much the same that is willing to bid for those programs.

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.

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.

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." ()

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,

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

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.

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.

Since only three percent of online shoppers begin their process at a dealership website, Search Engine Marketing is among the most efficient and effective ways for dealerships to build traffic for their website. However, it is also among the most complex forms of advertising to manage, with vastly different results in terms of cost and traffic volume. We are excited to offer dealers this new service which will give them the power of our bid management software and search expertise, in order to drive the best results at the lowest cost.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Nimbus won the bid from among eight bidders.

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

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.

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.

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." ()

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

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.

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

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 bid you a fond and affectionate farewell,

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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,

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).

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 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.

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),

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 suppoprt 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 support the French bid for the (2012) Olympics?

KBR remains committed to assist in the rebuilding and restoration of Iraq to help restore needed services for the Iraqi people, ... The company would comply with other bid requests should we determine the opportunity was a good business venture. KBR is proud to offer the company's global resources at this critical time.

I think it represented people who came back to reality after the farm crisis and looked at it realistically and bid accordingly. We're moving into that feverish attitude now.

I thought Forest's bid was quite close to his true value. The closer I get to the window closing, the more I start to panic.

It is positive to see that there is sufficient interest in the company... We expect a bid in about two months.

I thought the competition wen;played was pretty good. We're playing in the Central Region, which I thought was extremely competitive. But all at once, there is not a single at-large bid from the Central Region. We had the kids in the classroom to watch and we were so upbeat.n;But it was dead silence (when then;field was announced) and the silence said it all.

I think we could make a good bid alone.

I think we've got a great shot to get an at-large bid if we win one more, but I really think we need to get by Ozarks on Friday. But the only way you're going to feel comfortable about making the NCAA tournament is by getting that automatic bid.