Amazon Quotes

You see the same profile of difficulty among the educated Bostonian adults, and the going-to-school Bostonian kids, and the adults and children in the Amazon. The problems that were hard for them were hard for us. - Elizabeth Spelke

Yes. Retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy and Wal-Mart, who will carry whatever sells. - Vamsi Sistla

With Wal-Mart, the online component is a step that they have been taking gradually, but it is not a full-on 'this is what we do for a living' business. With Amazon, this is what they do for a living. - Don Gher

With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two individual trees. People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now. - Gregory Asner

With this launch, our goal is to give customers the Amazon.com experience -- everything from one-click shopping and helpful information to the high level of customer service we traditionally provide -- in the two important categories of toys and electronics. - Jeff Bezos

With the satellite, we can say the whole Amazon basin is doing something. - Alfredo R. Huete

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. - Safa Rashtchy

While operating efficiency is important, it will take significant revenue growth over the next several years to bring optimal leverage to Amazon's scale-driven model, and revenue growth will be increasingly difficult to achieve. - Sara Farley

While it's imprecise to extrapolate trends from a single distribution center, in our view the activity levels at this facility demonstrate that Amazon is highly likely to meet or exceed our December quarter revenue estimate of $1 billion. Shipment levels appear to be at least on plan, with a very high backlog of orders to be filled. - Jamie Kiggen

When we wrote our initial report recommending that investors avoid Amazon's convertibles last June, our primary concern was that the company would have liquidity problems in the first half of 2001. - Ravi Suria