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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That's the only halftime speech I remember, and it wasn't really a speech at all.
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We tried to have some productive dialog with them on several occasions.
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Everybody was very cordial. We had a good visit.
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We are focused right now on profitability. Our mantra was to get big fast, and we did get very big very fast. Our emphasis is to get an operating profit in the fourth quarter.
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I don't think it says anything about the process we use.
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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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This time of year, it's all about delivering for the customers. We contract with a number of temp agencies to provide us with seasonal help. People are screened by the temp agencies and hired by them if qualified. It doesn't bother me that a very capable worker like Jamie spent a day working at Amazon helping us meet our commitments to customers.
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It's very common in the bookselling industry to reference the Times list.
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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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We know as much about running a retail store as brick-and-mortar companies know about running a Web site.
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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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The Delaware distribution center is our second-smallest. I think it would be hard to draw conclusions from it about the whole company.
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Also, our most recently reported results show a positive margin on shipping.