Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Richard Roeper

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

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 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 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.

Gary Williams

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

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.

Andrew Cohen

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Mike Moran

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

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

Stephen Corry

India used to trade at a discount to the region, and now it trades at a slight premium. Earnings growth remains pretty solid, but it's starting to slow.

In general, you're not going to get a great discount in a great location, right where your job is, a place that you really want to buy.

John Manley

They are (trading) at a 40 percent discount to the market, ... That's a pretty big discount.

Investors are starting to discount the second quarter and price in growth in the fourth quarter,

In weak market environments, the stock trades at a discount to the parts. The move to realize value is not unique to Tyco.

It has meant that they've traded at a big discount to the others. People have been suspecting there's something wrong with the company. So there's been some people holding back.

John Major

Being in the Northeast, you can't discount the power of Mother Nature and the effect that winters have on deer.

The increase was primarily a result of reductions in discount rates to 4% for German pension plans and to 5.4% for non-German pension plans.

The luxury stores are the ones hitting the home runs and the discount stores are going to end up doing some pretty good numbers, ... I'm very worried that the middle part of the market is not here.

Tryon Edwards

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning

Joe Torre

It's tough to explain. You can mention a lot of things, and I can't discount any of them.

There's a joke in the fixed income world that the PPI and CPI excluding everything is zero. But you can't really discount everything, ... I'm not trying to be alarmist but the market is underestimating the inflation risk in the economy.

As it always does, it will come down to starting pitching. I don't think you can discount a player because of youth.