(59 quotes found)
“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“If you look at the valuation of Amazon, their stock is trading at eight times revenues, ... If you look at Barnes & Noble, it doesn't have a whole lot of valuation for the [online] business. By spinning off the barnesandnoble.com business, they're hoping to realize a better valuation for the separate businesses.”
Amy Ryan
“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.”
Jamie Kiggen
“Amazon and eBay have long been the top e-commerce sites in the minds of many consumers.”
Carrie Johnson
“I spent seven months trying to collect from a major bookstore chain. Amazon drops the money in my checking account every single month without fail.”
Cathy Stucker
“Amazon has perhaps the best franchise in the sector and they are having trouble meeting revenues estimates ... and that hurts the entire tech sector.”
Charles Pradilla
“Amazon has been consistently beating sales and earnings estimates and the stock should respond to overall macroeconomic trends.”
Dan Geiman
“It's going to be difficult to make sure that customer satisfaction remains high. That's because Amazon has no control over the merchandise being sold.”
Chris Vroom
“There will probably be a modest increase in expenditures. But relative to what Amazon will spend on marketing to attract new customers, it should be relatively minor.”
“This is not a case of someone going to Amazon.com and ordering a couple of books. This was really, really excessive misuse.”
Christa Carone
