Discount Quotations

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.

A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty driven by hard work and love working with teams. What people discount is, I grew up in a very small blue-collar town in Massachusetts and have basically scrapped my way career wise.

I wouldn't discount the possibility that the Israelis would act if they came to the conclusion that basically the world was prepared to live with Iran with nuclear weapons. They certainly have the capability by themselves to set back the Iranian nuclear program.

I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast.

It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it is that the book containing them is so new. When it comes to prophecy, antiquity breeds authenticity. Events in the distant past, we tend to think, occurred in sacred, mythic time.

The people who come downtown to go to the repertory theater or the Aurora or Anna's Jazz Club are not doing more than eating in restaurants. Ross is a discount clothing chain, and it's the most visible store in the downtown area right now. We'd like to have more to offer.

We still see IBM attractively valued at a 13 percent discount to S&P multiple.

There is no question it is a very different mindset. The one wants fashion first and the other is a discount shopper.

When we arrive on Monday, we may or may not know the full extent of Hurricane Rita. The stock market can attempt to discount what is discernible, but when it comes to acts of nature, it can only make assumptions.

We can do a lot with change drives, too. In some causes it is better because we can buy things at a discount and without tax.

Usually, history suggests that the others would have to match their pricing to be competitive with the given market. Discount airlines in the past have caused that to take place, and I don't see any reason that this wouldn't cause the same adjustment within the marketplace.

We're seeing signs that consumers are starting to feel the impact of persistently high gas prices. As prices stay high we're going to see the impact broaden from discount to more mainstream retailers.

We've tried to discount what I call the 'Y2K survivalist mentality' -- somehow that this is going to be Armageddon,

We have no reason to discount those fears and we are not.

Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications.

Sears faces significant challenges in the discount retail market, particularly from the large cap retailers Wal-Mart and Target.

Since declining over the past week, it is our opinion that the shares of each microprocessor supplier sufficiently discount potentially slower PC sell-through as well as the potential for aggressive pricing this winter. We continue to receive confirmation of strong notebook PC and server demand, even if desktops are less clear.

Obviously, you can?t discount how much (Diana) meant because nobody?s ever meant more to any team than Diana has meant to this group of kids. So if you want to compare them to Diana, they fall short, but so does everybody else.

More importantly, the removal of regulatory uncertainty provides the much-needed catalyst to close the deep discount to fair values in the sector.

NSW will also be strong but you can't discount the other teams. NSW and Tasmania won the two competitions last year and nobody would have picked them at the start of the season.

Obviously there is an overwhelming number of female victims, we can't discount that, however, at this point there is no specific focus looking into racial or sexual motivation-- specifically looking into specific relationships between individual victims and the suspect, and the overall state of mind of the suspect.

New vehicle sales declined modestly, reflecting the performance of the broader new car marketplace following the end of the employee discount programs. Other sales and revenues benefited from increases in extended service plan revenues and service department sales.

I wouldn't discount the likelihood that next week will be flat to lower. It's a holiday week, volume will be light, and after four up weeks we'll need a pause.

I would have to characterize it as a substantial discount off the retail price,

I would argue...that if you use a discount broker you could do as well as a fund of funds.

If we had a pot of money, what we'd want to do would be to deed restrict them, then discount them like 10 percent. That would cover why you're doing a deed restriction.

I got more money in that stuff than I had in my first race car, a '56 Ford. John Page gave me a senior citizen's discount because he said you don't see many old timers buying this kind of gear anymore.

I don't know the answer, but I do believe that people's observations are very difficult to discount - even if we can't explain them.

I believe the group is going to be able to grow at least 8 to 10 percent in the future and I think the S&P earnings are going to slow down to maybe 7 or 8 percent, ... So this group could have actually a premium growth rate and yet a discount to the market that's, at least, 50 percent, if not lower.

Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.

Given the big discount to other optical equipment manufacturing stocks, we think the downside is limited. We think it is worth buying the stock and are betting that management will deliver.

From what I've seen, Sears is well underway to making itself into a more efficient and a more pleasant-to-shop retail establishment. It is likely to become a powerhouse in the mass-market arena and perhaps look a little bit like a combination of a large discount store and Kohl's.

Given the strong consumer sentiment, merchants have been offering much smaller discount or even no discount compared with last year.

GM's success earlier this summer has really taken its toll on inventory levels for several models, limiting their ability to have another terrific month. And there appears to be relatively little momentum left in GM's employee discount incentive program now that it is in its third month.

He works, don't discount that. He plays hard every play he's on the court.

We are extremely pleased to reduce rates for educators who give so much to our community. The facts prove that teachers are a better insurance risk with fewer claims, so we are passing the savings along by reducing their rates. We've also increased our auto discount for customers who have other lines of business with us, such as life or homeowner insurance or an annuity.

Historically there has not been a great rate of return on airline stocks for investors, which is why they have always traded at a severe discount to the markets. And there is no guarantee that the government is going to approve on all these mergers, which lends an air of caution to investing in the sector.

Historically, you never knew what you were investing in Korea as the balance sheet was unclear. You go into a secondhand kind of a car market and you don't know what you were buying, so the natural thing to do is you paid a discount to everything you looked at.

The rally that we've had for the last couple of weeks was basically concluded this week. You're seeing investors starting to discount positive news from companies and a Fed rate cut next week,

We maintain a bullish view, however predicated on indications that the fourth quarter is tracking inline/slightly ahead of expectations, an upward bias to fiscal 2006 earnings estimates, the fact that investors are beginning to look at and discount fiscal 2007 estimates, which make valuation multiples more palatable, and further consolidation into the New Year.

There are such varying degrees of the price a customer gets for shipping. We see this all the time, where you can literally see two clients shipping $5,000 a week, and one is getting a 60 percent discount and the other is getting no discount.

King Kong. We shouldn't discount that as an Oscar contender.

Is Wal-Mart also hurting its business? I think cheaper products at the discount stores did have a marginal impact on the company's sales.

It could be that it shuts down all of Shell's onshore operations in Nigeria. The markets are going to discount Nigerian production in the price of oil.

It could be bad because some of those businesses are people's livelihoods. I don't think you want to discount the reality for those people.

It is a huge loss in the sense that when the government comes in and makes its arguments, it's easy to discount them when you don't understand how the system works. She was always looking to the whole meaning of the statute and the pragmatic effect of the statute.

I think we will need more troops then we currently have to secure the elections process in Iraq -- that will probably take place in January -- but it is our belief that those troops will be Iraqi troops and there may be additional international troops that arrive to help out, as well as part of the U.N. mission. So I don't see need for more American troops, but we can't discount it.

I think at the end of the day, the jury feels sorry for her a little bit, with all the emotional and mental problems she's had, the physical problems, and I think they discount her testimony in total.

I think a seasonal factor is part of the issue here, but you can't discount it all. Look at what is happening with chain store sales. They've been pretty weak. Some of it (weak retail employment) is real.

Late at night is usually when airlines load new fares and discount existing ones.

J&J has a basis for wanting a discount to the original terms and clearly seems headed down that path, but we think J&J is taking a big risk with its strategy and that (Guidant) has more leverage than most believe.

K-State is a true sleeper in every sense of the word. You just can never discount Bill Snyder.

People are being much more rational with their expenditures. That's why we're seeing these discount price retailers generating strong customer traffic and solid sales increases. And we expect strong earnings increases from them.

PABP validation isn't yet a requirement by Visa, but we expect it will be sometime in 2006. Mercury is taking the lead with our developer partners to help them stay ahead of the curve as security standards continue to evolve. This 50 percent discount will help our developers overcome the cost barrier and do what's in everyone's best business interests.

Over the past three weeks U.S. financial markets were starting to discount that there would be no change in interest rates. Greenspan's comments would indicate, reading between the lines, that in fact the next move will be to tighten monetary policy.

Retailers are really getting squeezed especially in the largest retail sector, which is the supermarket sector. In the discount sector, Sears and Kmart would be at significant risk.

Retailers aren't very nervous just yet. Obviously companies want to protect their profit margins and won't discount heavily if they don't absolutely have to.

Retailers and designers both recognize the value of micro-marketing. Designer names are product differentiation for the discount retailers, while designers get a legitimate vehicle to expose their brand to a much wider audience.

Part of the reason why Scandinavian crime has been so popular is the landscape. It is just so strong and alien. Although without taking anything away, you should probably also never discount the fact that blood does look particularly good against snow.

Our last decade had been the most successful of Iowa State football. You can't discount that overnight because a 19-year-old student puts the ball on the ground at the 1-yard line.

Some of the cheapest prices we found were at Wal-Mart, but product selection and presentation of the televisions at the discount retailer left much to be desired when compared to our experience at Best Buy and Circuit City.

That campaign was all about the smaller guy competing with the big boys. That's what Sears tried to do (against discount department stores such as Target, Costco and Kohl's) and failed.

Look for it in the earnings of discount retailers, restaurants and travel sectors. Start to look for GDP to be impacted, earnings in the third and fourth quarters, especially now because we're starting to approach the home heating season. This is not good. We haven't seen anything like this in the better part of 25 years, where you start to have people thinking about gas lines.

Mass merchandising and discount retailing is moving in a big way toward private labels and exclusive designer brands, ... That Wal-Mart is rumored to be contemplating something like this is logical, given the trend in the industry.

Lilly's current valuation still provides an attractive entry point. The stock trades at a modest 8% to 10% premium to its peers against 2006 and 2007 earnings and at a discount against our 2008 to 2010 forecast.

I was heart broke that the judge could discount the lives of my brother's family, especially that little girl. I think judge Counts will have the blood of somebody else on his hands.

It does, however, represent a significant discount from the exorbitant amount requested.

I think longer term the prognosis is not good, many will have to pull out because clearly the discount dockets have been a great success.

June was a difficult month for retailers and it's also typically a month during which comparable sales are driven by discount sales.

July was a washout, a bust, whichever way you want to call it, unless you were a discount retailer,

Judge Roberts moved NTP and Research in Motion closer to a settlement, and that's what investors were hoping for all along. NTP thinks past and future royalties may be as much as $1 billion, but our view is they could provide a discount to get the deal done, get the cash up front, and avoid a reexamination of the patents.

Male-centered cultures where sexual behavior is more oriented toward procreation tend to discount the importance of sexual pleasure for women.

While the counter still trades at a discount to our 16.5 times market price-earnings ratio, its current premium over our fair value estimate and strong price appreciation over the past few months suggest that the issue has temporarily outrun its fundamentals, with no further upside in the next 12 months.

We don't discount our greens fees. We try to put up signs about the wetness and cart paths only. We do remind our golfers about the conditions.

We do not discount the possibility of US aggression under any circumstance; we stress at the same time that it would not be in the interest of the United States, nor us.

While every quarter is important, we view AZO as a company in transition and would discount flat comps or sluggish gross margins as more a reflection of near term weather trends than a concern.

We don't solicit donations, and there are other organizations that people can donate to and other discount retailers they can shop at.

We expect a price cut for the PS2 later this year. We believe that Sony will respond to Microsoft's introduction of its next generation console with a cut from $149 to $99 some time before the November 22 Xbox 360 launch, ... We think that Sony has positioned itself to lower price by reducing the production costs of its console when it redesigned the box to a smaller format... Should Sony choose to discount the PS2 to $129 or even $99, we would expect a dramatic lift in PS2 hardware sales, and a corresponding lift in PS2 software sales. Our model forecasts that Sony PS2 hardware sales will be 1.8 million units higher this year compared to last year.

We will revisit our price target and rating when the stock stabilizes. Our long-term view of Palm is as rosy as yesterday's (Thursday's), but we assert that the implied discount between Palm and 3Com's Palm stake is the best way to play Palm for now.

We will revisit our price target and rating when the stock stabilizes, ... Our long-term view of Palm is as rosy as yesterday's (Thursday's), but we assert that the implied discount between Palm and 3Com's Palm stake is the best way to play Palm for now.

Those deficiencies are noted, but at the same time, there is no mention about the Medicare discount cards that were introduced last year. These cards provide discounts between 30 and 40 percent or even more for uninsured patients.

We are always looking for evidential opportunities. We cannot discount anything.

We are seeing some very heavy loads this month. It's a little early to predict the summer, but we're seeing encouraging signs. The problem the industry has is there's a lot of discount fares, and so we're not making money.

We are satisfied with the results of the Independent Validation to confirm the promise of the Triplex Assay TM ... While we were not initially happy with the suggestion of a discount for GDI, we believe that with the addition of the Series 1 Warrants and Series 2 Warrants, the shareholders of GDI will be in a good position when we deliver the value that the Triplex Assay TM is capable of.

The policy does not discriminate against any brokerage model, including discount brokers.

There is a very tight race for No. 1 between ABC, Fox and CBS. You can't discount that. That's why they decided to go with original programming. This is about the competitive nature of our business.

Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.

We believe the 21 percent discount to our target price should close through 2006.

We don't want to discount the tension in the area ... but from our perspective, we view it as something that can have a positive impact. If you talk to the leaders of the Palestinian Authority, this is exactly the kind of thing they want. They want education, they want paths to improve the economic well-being of their citizens.

We have filed a proposal for the discount to our headquarters (in Seattle, the United States) and it is now being finalized.

We will continue to create new alliances. You will see us more aggressively in the online brokerage and the discount brokerage businesses.

There has been, and continues to be, a strong shift of consumer spending away from traditional department stores and specialty stores over to discount stores.

Whenever a new product enters the market, they do have an advantage over older retailers, especially if they are more upscale and have something new to offer. We saw that happen to the Palm Beach Mall when the Gardens Mall opened. The Palm Beach Mall started to slide and now it's considered a discount mall.

We thought the discount they gave was worth singing up and it wasn't any expense to use to do it,

We also like, believe it or not, Morgan Stanley, which is our top pick in the brokerage field, although they may have another quarter and some stuff to wade through. It's selling at a very steep discount to the group. It's our top pick,

When you look at it, you want Amado Guevara on the ball a lot more than what he did today. With him being away for maybe 10 or 11 days, he's not looked as sharp in the last two games but he's a quality player and you can't discount quality players.

When the employee discount plans are removed there will be a lull. Things tend to even out. September might be an interesting month to look at.

We are encouraged that they're continuing with the discount program, but we'll just have to wait to see whether that translates into increased production.

Finance 101 will tell you, if you take the value of her figure skating revenue streams and discount it, this is a multimillion-dollar disappointment.