Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Burnham

I do not see any earnings visibility in Amazon and in fact, I noticed how they are getting rid of some of their employees and starting to do the things that other companies that have problems do,

Richard Preston

Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that's the sheer weight of living material - of, say, deep tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin.

Mike McGuire

The key is how many Amazon customers already use existing online services.

Johannes Lehmann

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.

Johannes Lehmann

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.

J. A. Konrath

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

Sean Badding

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.

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.

Jason Olim

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.

Buddy Carlisle

Lance is a competitor and he can shoot, that's a pretty good combination. Lance is just one of those guys who works hard to reach his goals.

Dane Looker

He's part of this family. You know it's more serious than we'd like it to be when he has to miss practice because he's tired. He loves the game so much. He loves the team so much. And he's such a competitor that he doesn't want to miss anything.

James Cash Penney

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

Michael Cuddyer

Everybody wants to play all the time, and I'm no exception. I want to be out there every day as a competitor and a player. Unfortunately, that's not how it's been. I'm not complaining but at the same time, it's not something I particularly enjoy.

Frank Schade

It should hurt. If you are a competitor and you give everything you have, it's going to hurt. It always does. If it doesn't, then you didn't do much, you didn't leave it on the floor.

Dave Mills

Dana may have a friendly and bubbly personality, but when she steps on the track, she's a shark. She's a great competitor and a hard worker. She earns everything she gets.

Matt Rosoff

The obvious competitor who they're gunning for here looks like Skype,

Bruce Burnett

Tanner is a tenacious competitor with a strong will. He learned early on that conditioning can put you on a level playing field and he has always been in fantastic shape. Tanner has a remarkable set of lungs, he can just go and go. That enables him to control the tempo of the bout, to take the fight to the other individual.

Bobby Engram

It just feels good to get that monkey off of our backs. As a competitor you don't want to hear about how long it's been. You just want to win the game so you really don't have to hear about it anymore.

David Johnson

I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice.

Larry Ceisler

We have offered $2 million to start out with, and then every year going forward, a percentage of our gross with a minimum of $500,000.

Anna Kendrick

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

Laurence Gilman

To say we're unhappy with the performance of the team is a gross understatement.

William Carpenter

To say I find these results unacceptable would be a gross understatement,

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Bradley Hunter

When home prices are so much higher than median incomes, it makes for an unhealthy economy.

Josh Bernoff

I thought they would start higher and work their way down. The problem is, you can't go up.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Tong Lixin

In South Korea, short-track speed skating is the popular sport, just like the table tennis in China. The level of its young skaters is much higher than the youth in China, where the sport is only practiced in two provinces with about 300 registered skaters.

John Rother

Clearly, the COLA is not going to be enough to offset these higher costs, particularly in heating,

Mitsushige Akino

Higher oil prices and a strengthening yen accelerated selling.

Gregory Klump

In general, the higher end of the market is holding up much better than the lower end.

Ben Shapiro

In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States.

Howard Davidowitz

The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,

Billy Childish

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Martina McBride

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.

Joe Thomas

I was a little nervous at first. I never played reggae music in my life.

Kelli O'Hara

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

King Tuff

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.

King Krule

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

Chris Moller

In the meantime, we have important competitions to run so there is no point shooting ourselves in the foot.

Joe Wilson

Theirs is in music, and ours is a structure.

Phil Garner

It's been a trait of ours all year and we managed to win even though we hadn't done that,

Randy Carlyle

It wasn't pretty, but we'll take the outcome. We put ourselves in position to win it.

Bob Spencer

We pride ourselves in being a well-rounded, blue-collar group.

Andi Anderson

We usually redeem ourselves in the second half. We just had to play more steady and we had a lot of turnovers.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Jim Gabella

Right now we're not playing very well. We're not putting anything together offensively. We can do one of two things ? we can feel sorry for ourselves or we can come back out (today) and work.

Juliette Gordon Low

Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.