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.

Larry Freed

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.

Scott Devitt

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

Floyd Hall

Kmart's sales for October were on plan despite softer apparel sales due to unseasonably warm weather during the latter half of the month. Sales volumes for the third quarter were near expectations. Categories showing particular strength for the month included home appliances and electronics, do-it-yourself, home decor, cosmetics and fragrances, consumables, stationery and pharmaceuticals.

Jim Davis

We think apparel is where we have the greatest opportunity now. It is an embarrassingly small part of our business, and we feel we have a lot of potential there.

Paul Charron

Our 1998 performance is particularly rewarding given the highly competitive retail environment and the incremental costs associated with our transformation initiatives, ... These initiatives strengthen Liz Claiborne's leadership position in the apparel industry and position us for continued growth into the millennium.

Richard Hastings

Our recent visits to some stores indicate better controls over displays, clutter, and shelf appearance, necessary steps to stabilize store aesthetics in support of their apparel initiatives.

Jim Sullivan

Inflation is obviously a little bit higher than expected. Food and apparel were up. This is not going to stand in the way of further Fed easing.

David Pritchard

The concept of the Gill Technical Apparel line is 'performance casual,' meaning these clothes are very contemporary-looking, with high-performing fabric attributes. An enthusiast can easily move from on-the-water cruising to off-the-water activities. We conceived it after hearing requests from customers for sailing and boating gear that performed as always, yet looked good enough to wear anywhere.

Phil Jamieson

And that drove increased customer visit frequency. And what Wal-Mart found was that while they got extra sales from food, the real benefits were what it did to their general merchandise and apparel business, which has higher margins.

David Dwyer

The Gap ( GPS : Research , Estimates ) is a very interesting one. A lot of apparel manufacturers have a problem selling to independent retailers, a real channel conflict. The Gap has an exclusive brand that they sell through a proprietary distribution channel. They can really focus the Internet on that - on that exclusive chain.

Laurence Leeds

The big bet for the apparel merchants is not how Easter sales will shape up in April but how the weather acts.

Hal Morton

I really don't know what it is, because I can only think of one time in the nine years I've been here that he (Floyd) has come in to talk to me at all, ... His concern at the time was he didn't like to separate appliances out of his loads going to the landfill.

Paul Doyle

Down the road, I can see server appliances doing well, ... If (Gateway) can build an intelligent gateway to manage all these devices, one that doesn't need Windows NT certification and one they can manage for you, then I think it's smart.

Tetsuya Kawakami

As the world is now witnessing a major shift to digital from analog, brisk sales of our digital home appliances led the growth in the term.

William Shakespeare

Diseases desperate grownBy desperate appliances are relieved,Or not at all.

Alan McCollough

Continued strength of the consumer electronics and home office categories and the recent substantial weakness in major appliances accelerated our decision to reformat all existing superstores. The major appliance business carries high fixed costs and tends to be more cyclical than other retail categories." ()

Ken Cassar

What Sears is trying to do with appliances makes sense. It may not sell a lot of refrigerators for them, but it will help them qualify and educate their customers.

Mike Davidson

Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities.

Ruth Reichl

The cook doesn't want to be locked away in the kitchen anymore. He or she wants to be around the guests. That means that kitchen appliances suddenly become like a sofa and table ? things that everybody is going to look at. I think it's a real indication of where we are in food culture today.

David Parks

We are committed to investing marketing and training resources to educate the channel on the benefits of delivering cutting-edge mobility, digital convergence and appliances to customers in these markets.

Frank Black

Kim reminded (guitarist) Joey (Santiago) she liked my song and maybe she'd do a lyric on top of it, which is fine, because I've written lyrics for it like three times and have never really been satisfied with it. 'Gigantic' part two is in the works! And it's going to be bigger and better than the first one!

Brian Murphy

Kilgore had some ideas on transportation, but they weren't exactly great ones, ... He certainly never brought them home as part of a bigger message.

Chris Clarke

I would say this game is much, much bigger than the first one. It will give us a chance to see how far we've come and where we stand.

Brad Wick

Kenny is one of the toughest guys I have ever met, people just cant see how he can go in with these bigger guys like he does. Its the shock he gives that bigger guy when he hits them that makes them know they are in for a fight.

Paul Walsh

Katrina was a hurricane on steroids. For the rest of the year, the pre-hurricane effect -- now renamed the ?Katrina effect? -- will have a bigger impact on consumers that usual.

Mark Shapiro

I think it had a big impact. Bigger than any of us realized, including him.

Bryan Hopkins

I think in the past we've had bigger names on the team. But we still have talent here.

Mark Chalupa

It always seems to be one of our bigger races. There will be a lot of cars from out of town. This will be our first points race. We're hoping to have 125 cars. A lot of people are ready to race.

Tim Spiers

He was about to become a starter. He's just 6-foot-1, but he plays bigger than that. He just landed on someone's foot during a scrimmage in practice. The scary thing is he's had injures before and you hope it's not something that's going to keep popping up.

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

Dan Bloom

All the wins are great, but I'd rather be on the right side of that book. Pete Tilman won a New England championship, and I don't consider myself the greatest wrestler in Sharon history because I don't have a New England title to back that up.

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Al Hubbard

There are very good laws on the books. What's important is that those laws are enforced aggressively.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Alan Milstein

Besides, there are privacy laws on the books, both state and federal, so there's no way they'd win. It makes you wonder what they're really worried about.

Tony Blair

At that point we close the chapter or we close the book.

James T. Mccay

What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read.

Jack Harris

You have to go by the handbook. We have all the guidelines in that book. ... Coming out at a meeting and saying you can do this or that, we can't do that in a meeting.

Wallace Stegner

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

Zach Braff

When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On Garden State I did different lines on every take, just making crap up. And it was great each time.

Zac Posen

I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

Voltaire

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

William Butler Yeats

Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.

Dean Norton

If you can imagine encountering George Washington on the grounds, it would be in the Botanical Garden on his knees with his hands in the dirt. He tried many new plants in this small space and recorded things in detail. But not everything he grew here was new and experimental. He grew sugar beets, grasses, peppers, oaks, pecans, Lombardy poplars and chinaberry.

Moon Unit Zappa

I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.

Louise Hay

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Valentino Castellani

The interesting thing is that since Giorgio Rocca started winning his competitions, there is a correlation with the victories of Giorgio and the selling of tickets.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Marc Ostrofsky

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

John Carmack

It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well...

Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Lee Ann Womack

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

Guy Kawasaki

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.