Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Fleming

We're always looking at what the competition is doing, ... But do we want to become like Amazon? No. Amazon is an online shopping mall. It benefited from building a great asset early in the game. We're about store integration and expanding the customer reach to Wal-Mart stores.

At the same time, Amazon doesn't have to do any distribution or fulfillment or even take any inventory risk. It's a nice beneficial model.

Henry Blodget

After re-analyzing Amazon's cash and liquidity, we remain comfortable with it. Amazon needs to stay on track to turn an operating profit in Q4, but as long as several key trends continue to improve, we consider a squeeze very unlikely.

Probably the statue was meant to represent Hercules' ninth labor to retrieve the belt of the Amazon queen Hippolyte.

At the end of the day, the toy business is not a huge part of the Amazon business overall. It's really only something that ramps up during holiday season, and they'll find other companies to help fill the void.

Competition is seriously hurting Amazon and it needs to increase spending just to keep up with the market. The picture is getting worse: more spending, steeper decline in margins.

Mike May

This deal is comes as no surprise. This is the last emerging category that Amazon doesn't have a stake in.

This is about Amazon trying to control the cost side of the equation and also trying to control the cost side in a market that is getting increasingly crowded.

Larry Wachtel

A lot of the results yesterday have been a little disappointing. Microsoft had a decent quarter but was a little below expectations. It was the same with both Amazon and Coke.

Amazon would serve itself well by having an open platform because that typically gets you to the sweet spot of the market: the masses. It is also probably a profitable venture to go into a subscription model, which gives customers more peace of mind to download without looking at how many music titles they are downloading.

Max McKeown

Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.

Amazon Shorts will help authors find new readers and help readers find and discover authors they'll love. We hope that by making short-form literature widely and easily available, Amazon.com can help to fuel a revival of this kind of work.

Amazon sends us an e-mail, and we send the books directly to the customer.

Jeff Bezos

Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing Search Inside the Book technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books.

Amazon is widely expected to post strong (fourth-quarter) revenue, but margins may be more of an issue. Intense price competition, technology investments and increased shipping cost subsidization may create an uninspiring 4Q report.

John Davidson

Amazon is unique in having been successful at starting as an Internet-only business,

Amazon (is) selling everything from garden appliances and apparel to electronics and used books. But bigger isn't always better from a customer's viewpoint.

Amazon is really getting hit from both sides. The business environment, especially in the United States, is very, very competitive.

Tim O'Reilly

Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products - fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source for the secondary market of those products. Google is the authority for information about facts, but they're relatively undifferentiated.

Amazon is not a competitor of ours as a music site, ... My gross margins are substantially higher than theirs. I am not at all dissatisfied at how we are doing.

Amazon is handling the competition fairly well, but it is not pulling away from the pack (of other Internet retailers),

Amazon is certainly not a perfect company. However, doctors, teachers, engineers, journalists, politicians, and labor unions are also on a continuum of consciousness, and none are perfect either. It is easy to judge and find fault with any company if that is what one's ideological biases wish to see.

Janet Fitch

Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones.

Amazon insists it is still on the path to double-digit operating margin, despite the fact the 2005 guidance distinctly suggests a reversal of this course with declining incremental operating margin. Clearly, something is amiss here.

Amazon has perhaps the best franchise in the sector and they are having trouble meeting revenues estimates ... and that hurts the entire tech sector.

Amazon has been consistently beating sales and earnings estimates and the stock should respond to overall macroeconomic trends.

Amazon had to build its name up from scratch, ... Barnes and Noble, on the other hand, is very well known. It's obviously much bigger and has greater financial resources.

Amazon Fishbowl with Bill Maher has a simple, yet powerful missionto help our customers discover new books, films, and music, and to help the creators of these works find new audiences.

Amazon Fishbowl with Bill Maher' has a simple, yet powerful mission -- to help our customers discover new books, films, and music, and to help the creators of these works find new audiences. We believe that Bill Maher's interviews with some of the world's most renowned and up-and-coming artists and entertainers will offer customers unique insight into the motivations and inspirations behind the books, films, and music they love.

Jeff Bezos

Amazon employees bought a lot of cool stuff as part of the beta program.

Marc Andreessen

Amazon drove Borders out of business, and the vast majority of Borders employees are not qualified to work at Amazon. That's an actual, full-on problem. But should Amazon have been prevented from doing that? In my view, no.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Amazon doesn't want to give Apple a cut of its media sales, so Apple won't let Amazon sell products in its apps.

James Patterson

Amazon Connect creates a relationship with my readers that didn't exist before. Communicating directly with my readers about anything I want, whenever I want, is extremely powerful.