Discounting Quotes

The stock market is a discounter of all known information.

When I started at Bloomingdale's as a buyer, Alexander's was a discounter across the street, and every time Alexander's had something that we had at Bloomingdale's, we'd have to meet price. I didn't really want to be in a business where I had no control over my inventory, the value of my inventory.

Of course, the discounting of future earnings should hurt all stocks. But it should hurt technology stocks more than others, because so many of them are valued at extremely high levels relative to their current earnings.

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.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.

What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?

When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience

Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.

Nothing someone says before the word 'but' really counts.

The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing capital in the occupation in question; that is, at the rate which the entrepreneur could obtain in other investments

Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.