Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amazon and eBay have long been the top e-commerce sites in the minds of many consumers.

Mike May

This deal is comes as no surprise. This is the last emerging category that Amazon doesn't have a stake in.

Jeff Bezos

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

Henry Blodget

I could see Amazon and eBay merging. Amazon operates in a huge market, but it's got lower margin revenue. eBay has higher margin revenues, but the secondhand and small-business markets will always be limited relative to the size of the retail market. Combine the two, though, and that could be a very powerful entity.

Sean Pertwee

I'd really like to go down the Amazon in some capacity. I've spent time in the Congo, so I love the jungle.

Maria Semple

I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.

We've been talking to multiple vendors, and evidently, our conversations with Amazon yielded some fruit, ... because they announced their own initiative on the heels of our announcement. We can now hope or expect them to be our fist vendor.

Reed Hastings

We believe that Amazon is going to enter this market in the near future. It could happen before the holidays.

While this may be a slower increase than we saw in 2005, this takes Amazon further away, not closer, to its goal of double-digit margins.

At the end of the day, the toy business is not a huge part of the Amazon business overall. It's really only something that ramps up during holiday season, and they'll find other companies to help fill the void.

Competition is seriously hurting Amazon and it needs to increase spending just to keep up with the market. The picture is getting worse: more spending, steeper decline in margins.

Nicholson Baker

I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one.

If the numbers are better than expected, Wall Street will assume Amazon can grow faster in the future and that bodes well for the bottom line. It would also means consumer spending, especially in the online retail arena, is holding up well.

It's great that Amazon has positive cash flow, but why should I pay a premium for that. At one time Amazon had a technology advantage, but that technology is easily duplicated.

It should be in normal shops. Failing that, I'm sure one of the Amazon webshops will have it, if you try the different countries.

Julian Barnes

It's the great drama, the great unknowable of most of our lives, ... We don't all paddle up the Amazon in a canoe and get shot at, but we do the equivalent of that (in our relationships).

Investing in their business in order to put in place an infrastructure of the Amazon of tomorrow is becoming, increasingly, an expensive proposition. And it becomes painful, if you will, for investors to wait for that to happen.

Investors perhaps were disappointed that profits didn't beat estimates, even by just a little bit. Actually, this is the first time after eight straight quarters that Amazon didn't beat expectations.

Jeff Bezos

Internet company stocks in general are very volatile, and Amazon is definitely included in that,

but I think eBay and even Amazon have reached pretty high valuations that can't be supported even with their growth rate.

By dramatically changing the landscape, we are tipping the balance in a way that is increasing the risk of malaria transmission. This is one of the most detailed quantitative field studies in the Amazon that directly addresses the potential link between deforestation and malaria.

The labels have been talking to Amazon for several months.

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.

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.

This is about Amazon trying to control the cost side of the equation and also trying to control the cost side in a market that is getting increasingly crowded.

Probably the statue was meant to represent Hercules' ninth labor to retrieve the belt of the Amazon queen Hippolyte.

The search engines have been working on book-copying strategies themselves. This is Amazon showing people it too has a pretty compelling database of book text.

It might be the case that Amazon finally reached the top level of expenses.

George Packer

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn't obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively.

Megan Smith

You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government.

The general takeaway from our moonlighting is that Amazon is executing on its near-term and long-term financial and operating goals. Customers are plentiful and active, customer service levels are high, and operations are becoming more efficient.

Hugh Johnson

The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or Microsoft disappointing and then others beating.