“There was little science to Amazon’s earliest distribution methods. The company held no inventory itself at first. When a customer bought a… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“In the copy he brought to Kathryn Dalzell, he had underlined one particular passage in which Walton described borrowing the best ideas… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate… The real story is… — Patrick Symmes Copy Share Image
“One early challenge was that the book distributors required retailers to order ten books at a time. Amazon didn’t yet have that… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“By that time, Bezos and his executives had devoured and raptly discussed another book that would significantly affect the company’s strategy: The… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
In 2001, Texaco was bought by Chevron, and during deliberations concerning that sale, an 800 page document listing the problems and liabilities… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
When you look at a company like Amazon, one of the reasons that Amazon is one of the most powerful companies in… — Stephanie Ruhle Copy Share Image
Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I've done more crap than I care to remember. I really have. 'Airwolf.' 'Murder, She Wrote.' 'Amazon Women on the Moon.' But… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
“Miller knew nothing about toy retailing, but in a pattern that would recur over and over, Bezos didn’t care. He was looking… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“. . . I can see how the issue of exercising corporate control over users content is truly enraging here, on a… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“As part of his ongoing quest for a better allocation of his own time, he decreed that he would no longer have… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“If you want to get to the truth about what makes us different, it’s this,” Bezos says, veering into a familiar Jeffism:… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“That summer, Harrison Miller and Bezos butted heads in front of the board of directors over the size of the bet on… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
“Chief Johnson has full faith on us. Which means if I can complete this task and hunt down the murderer, not only… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two… — Adam Garcia Copy Share Image
And what they believe in real life is complicated. Theodor Koch-Grunberg wrote in his diary that indigenous peoples in the Amazon see… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The plumbing and pluvial dynamics of the Amazon, the largest freshwater system on Earth, are still far from understood. This is partly… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Amazon is certainly not a perfect company. However, doctors, teachers, engineers, journalists, politicians, and labor unions are also on a continuum of… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
“Later Bezos recalled speaking at an all-hands meeting called to address the assault by Barnes & Noble. “Look, you should wake up… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
HAZEL: "THERE," she said.The official building on their left had a single word etched on the glass doors: AMAZON. "oh," Frank said."Uh,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In truth, the cinema as a delivery system obviously has its days numbered. And that's not a bad thing. When you can… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition… — Elizabeth Spelke Copy Share Image
Amazon has overreached. In service of its fledgling drone delivery operation, Prime Air, Amazon appears to be planning to force communities to… — Robin Hayes Copy Share Image
The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real… — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
We live in an era where each of us has a massive catalog of film and television available through the internet at… — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
The fact is, when you look at the best teams—like the ones that existed at Toyota or 3M when Takeuchi or Nonaka… — Jeff Sutherland Copy Share Image
Amazon knows that a lot of small businesses live in constant terror of Amazon, because they know that with the press of… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
On Amazon, you find retailers that want Amazon to do part of their services. Those, you don't find to the same degree… — Margrethe Vestager Copy Share Image
For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
