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.

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.

Kathy Savitt

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Jeff Bezos

Amazon employees bought a lot of cool stuff as part of the beta program.

Marc Andreessen

Amazon drove Borders out of business, and the vast majority of Borders employees are not qualified to work at Amazon. That's an actual, full-on problem. But should Amazon have been prevented from doing that? In my view, no.

Edward Thomas

I have come to the borders of sleep,/ The unfathomable deep/ Forest where all must lose/ Their way.

Dave Nabity

He is not dealing with illegal immigration and doing everything he can to close the borders and stop the influx of illegal immigration.

William Empson

Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.

Emile M. Cioran

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Laura Bush

David Dreier cares a lot about a lot of issues. One of the issues that he's been talking to me a lot about is to make sure the federal government does its job in enforcing our borders to keep illegal folks out of our country,

Mike Fitzpatrick

Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview.

Mike Johanns

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

Bobby Jindal

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.

Tim Pape

Rather than just have the annexed people represented by people they never voted for, some people on borders of districts will get new councilmen. And they've always got the at-large members.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Tim Wilson

He knew everything about his furniture business or his development business from the ground up.

Steve Black

He jumps into the decision-making process. If you just want to run your business on your own and report results, you won't like working for Jamie.

Richard Boucher

has eroded Russia's reputation as a place to do business and eroded confidence in Russia's legal and judicial institutions.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

Lyssa Jenkens

Growth will continue in education and health, which have been the only steady gainers in this century. But it is now moving into business and professional services, which holds many of the highest-skilled jobs in the economy.

Greg Brenneman

The whole concept of treating people with dignity and respect is a concept that isn't a business concept, it's a life concept. It's who you are at the end of the day.

Seth Godin

I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.

Mark Adams

This was a good thing. Whether a restaurant is smoking or non, it should be left up to the business owner.

Bashir Ahmed

What drove him to it, who pushed him to it, I don't know, ... I wish I could find out.

Michael Cuddyer

I was able to sit back on it, had a good swing and drove it over the fence.

Dave Meier

The 'Hall of Fame' says a lot that the trucks are famous and the people that drove them are famous, ... We want to highlight some people who have done some incredible things.

George Roosevelt

About 20 minutes later, the suspects drove by and took one shot at them.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The Republicans won the women's vote in 2010. It was the first time since Ronald Reagan that the Republicans had won the women's vote. And when you look at the issues that really drove women to the Republican Party, it's been the issues related to the economy, to jobs, the debt.

Steve Dixon

When he drove there, he went up to the house, spent 12, 13 minutes in the house when no one was home,

Jimmy Johnson

When I drove by I was shocked to see the line so big, ... It's overwhelming.

Mike Scioscia

There's no question what he does for a lineup. He can make your lineup deeper. It's not going to relate to 12 runs every night, but tonight we got some runners on and drove them in. Vlad was in the middle of everything.

Helio Castroneves

What a team, what a team. I drove it like I stole it.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Chris Patten

The new administration must be broad-based with a mandate to speak for a majority of the people of Afghanistan,

Pope Benedict XVI

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

Peter Jackson

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

Kendrick Lamar

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Larry Niven

The majority is always sane.

Mahatma Gandhi

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

Henrik Ibsen

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

Thomas Reed

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

Michael Zolensky

By this week, more than 200 samples will be circulating. Everyone who wants one, and who is qualified to do the analysis, will have one.

Jesse Ventura

Some felt I'm not academically qualified, and they're right.

S. Jay Olshansky

The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

Michael Keaton

The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough.

George E. Brown, Jr.

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Ben Kuehne

It had nothing to do with her work as a lobbyist.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Rod Argent

I was wondering, 'Is this going to work?'

Sophocles

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.