Quotes About Discounts

#1. The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

Amanda Ripley

#2. Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

Jeffrey Zaslow

#3. Groupon is a great concept packaged in a superb name, but the concept of group discounts is not new.

Rachel Sklar

#4. Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.

Mark Zandi

#5. Special discounts to Hogwarts students who swear they're going to use our products to get rid of this old bat,' added George, pointing at Professor Umbridge.

J.K. Rowling

#6. I roll my eyes at Alys. "Do you think they give discounts?" I say. She shrugs and continues drinking her soup.
"Of course they'll give discounts. We just have to pay for them!" cackles Aunt May.

Amelia Warren

#7. He was all too aware of how one's perceptions can start lining up to support a particular conclusion. Once a pattern begins to take shape, however erroneous it might be, the mind unconsciously favors any data points that support it and discounts any that don't.

John Verdon

#8. Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.

David Jeremiah

#9. ... but she believed and that was the price of belief. It gave no discounts to friendship (p370)

Alex London

#10. In most cases, preferred supplier contracts contain volume commitments that, if not met, could jeopardize the entire contract and cost the company millions in lost discounts based on nonperformance. This is precisely why compliance with preferred vendors and contracted rates is critical.

Jeff Pulver

#11. Life may be scary
But it's only temporary.
And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.

from: Antinatalism A Thought Experiment

Quentin S. Crisp

#12. Consumers could be in for an even sweeter deal, either getting discounts from retailers for using the PIN debit cards or being rewarded by card network by winning money back for using the signature debit cards.

David Robertson

#13. It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.

Craig Ferguson

#14. When you realize how much you're worth, You'll stop giving people discounts.

Karen Salmansohn

#15. My dad used to work at IBM, so we used to get discounts on computers and stuff, and I did have a ThinkPad.

Jimmy Fallon

#16. It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#17. In a sense, the market, by expecting a fall in prices, discounts that fall and makes it happen right away instead of later. Expectations speed up future price reactions.

Murray Rothbard

#18. I was born when my dad was 50 ... It's weird growing up with a dad that much older than you. We'd go to the movies, we're both getting discounts.

Gary Gulman

#19. I don't need panty discounts on anything.

Kenya Wright

#20. Anyone who discounts you is a dumbass," I muttered as the golf cart jerked forward.
"And are you a dumbass?" the Pigeon inquired as she peeked under the tarp.
"Absolutely not ... I'm a smartass.

Robyn Peterman

#21. Avoid cheap clients. If a prospect client tries to lowball you for deep discounts, shut the door.

Timi Nadela

#22. We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there.

Andrea Jung

#23. To get discounts on some drugs, private insurers are willing to pay top prices for blockbuster pharmaceuticals like Vioxx, despite the fact that Vioxx was rumored to cause fatal strokes and heart attacks.

Alex Gibney

#24. Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected

George Soros

#25. Where did we come from? Where are we going? Is there possibility of a group discount?

Woody Allen

#26. When we don't ask for what we want and need, we discount ourselves.

Melody Beattie

#27. There are no victories at discount prices.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#28. Not to discount my music, but I'm always suspicious of the music that I make on some level, as to how valid it is. Or maybe not "valid," but how important.

Ryan Adams

#29. Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.

Billy Joel

#30. The biggest mistake made by emerging speakers is that they discount their own experience.

Darren LaCroix