Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amazon at this level is a large retailer. So, 84 percent year-over-year growth is not bad in a very seasonally tough quarter, particularly given that Amazon's core categories are at their seasonally weakest in the June quarter. You did see that in their segment breakout. Books, music and video grew at 38 percent, but June is the toughest quarter.

Amazon and eBay have long been the top e-commerce sites in the minds of many consumers.

A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.

Jeff Bezos

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

George Packer

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

As long as Amazon is showing continued strength on the top and bottom line and the overall market is picking up momentum, this stock will participate in the rally,

The search engines have been working on book-copying strategies themselves. This is Amazon showing people it too has a pretty compelling database of book text.

We've been talking to multiple vendors, and evidently, our conversations with Amazon yielded some fruit, ... because they announced their own initiative on the heels of our announcement. We can now hope or expect them to be our fist vendor.

The labels have been talking to Amazon for several months.

The knowledge we can gain from studying the Amazonian dark earths, found throughout the Amazon River region, not only teaches us how to restore degraded soils, triple crop yields and support a wide array of crops in regions with agriculturally poor soils, but also can lead to technologies to sequester carbon in soil and prevent critical changes in world climate.

The knowledge that we can gain from studying the Amazonian dark earths, found throughout the Amazon River region, not only teaches us how to restore degraded soils, triple crop yields and support a wide array of crops in regions with agriculturally poor soils, but also can lead to technologies to sequester carbon in soil and prevent critical changes in world climate.

The Network Storage Conference attracts some of the most forward-thinking and informed professionals in data storage. We look forward to talking with this group about how Amazon created such a storage service infrastructure and how it can help businesses and clients focus on innovation rather than managing storage.

It's reasonable to expect that such high levels of customer satisfaction will keep sales and revenue growing at Amazon in the coming year.

James Altucher

I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don't go up.

Investing in their business in order to put in place an infrastructure of the Amazon of tomorrow is becoming, increasingly, an expensive proposition. And it becomes painful, if you will, for investors to wait for that to happen.

Investors perhaps were disappointed that profits didn't beat estimates, even by just a little bit. Actually, this is the first time after eight straight quarters that Amazon didn't beat expectations.

Jeff Bezos

Internet company stocks in general are very volatile, and Amazon is definitely included in that,

Henry Blodget

I could see Amazon and eBay merging. Amazon operates in a huge market, but it's got lower margin revenue. eBay has higher margin revenues, but the secondhand and small-business markets will always be limited relative to the size of the retail market. Combine the two, though, and that could be a very powerful entity.

Sean Pertwee

I'd really like to go down the Amazon in some capacity. I've spent time in the Congo, so I love the jungle.

By dramatically changing the landscape, we are tipping the balance in a way that is increasing the risk of malaria transmission. This is one of the most detailed quantitative field studies in the Amazon that directly addresses the potential link between deforestation and malaria.

but I think eBay and even Amazon have reached pretty high valuations that can't be supported even with their growth rate.

If the numbers are better than expected, Wall Street will assume Amazon can grow faster in the future and that bodes well for the bottom line. It would also means consumer spending, especially in the online retail arena, is holding up well.

It might be the case that Amazon finally reached the top level of expenses.

It should be in normal shops. Failing that, I'm sure one of the Amazon webshops will have it, if you try the different countries.

It's not the first time they have tried to organize. It's nothing new. We don't have unions at Amazon and don't really need them. Every employee is an owner at Amazon, since they own stock and can exercise their right to raise workplace issues or concerns at any time.

Julian Barnes

It's the great drama, the great unknowable of most of our lives, ... We don't all paddle up the Amazon in a canoe and get shot at, but we do the equivalent of that (in our relationships).

Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn't obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively.

Nicholson Baker

I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one.

Megan Smith

You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government.

The general takeaway from our moonlighting is that Amazon is executing on its near-term and long-term financial and operating goals. Customers are plentiful and active, customer service levels are high, and operations are becoming more efficient.

Hugh Johnson

The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or Microsoft disappointing and then others beating.

Maria Semple

I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.

The Lula government made a great contribution to the protection and sustainable use of the precious Amazon heritage, which is seriously threatened by the road project and the expansion of agribusiness.