Bill Curry
Bill Curry
William Alexander "Bill" Curryis a retired American football coach and former player. Most recently he was the head coach at Georgia State University, which began competing in college football in 2010. Curry formerly worked as a football analyst for ESPN...
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We tried to have some productive dialog with them on several occasions.
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We know as much about running a retail store as brick-and-mortar companies know about running a Web site.
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Split shipments are not always bad. We look for an optimum inventory level instead of having every item in every distribution center. It can be a better use of capital to occasionally do a split shipment instead of stocking every item in every center.
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That's the only halftime speech I remember, and it wasn't really a speech at all.
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Those of us who did it for a while probably appreciate it most, because we know how hard it is. They didn't get to this exalted status because they were lucky. Both of them know what works. Both of them have the guts to stay the course. They have the energy to convince 18-year-olds they can be part of something big.
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We are absolutely committed to being profitable by the end of this year, and one way to do this is to make sure that every item contributes to profitability.
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These people need to pay more attention to the money they are taking. It's corrupt. I don't like it. It's not good.
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What we are doing is a broad initiative to make sure that every product we sell contributes to profitability. But we have not changed one bit our mission to provide people a place where they can find and discover anything on the map.
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Everybody was very cordial. We had a good visit.
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Also, our most recently reported results show a positive margin on shipping.
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It's fair to say that some people wondered why we were investing $300 million in our infrastructure, but I think this year is showing that it was the right thing to do.
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It's very common in the bookselling industry to reference the Times list.
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Anybody who knows the cash flow dynamics of our business gets that. We ended the first quarter with more than a $1 billion in the bank, and we expect to generate positive cash flow from operations over the rest of the year.
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The Delaware distribution center is our second-smallest. I think it would be hard to draw conclusions from it about the whole company.