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““Unlike traditional retailers, Amazon returned few unsold books, often less than 5 percent. The big book chains regularly returned 40 percent of all the books they acquired from publishers, for full refunds,””

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“There was little science to Amazon’s earliest distribution methods. The company held no inventory itself at first. When a customer bought a book, Amazon…

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“They agreed on five core values and wrote them down on a whiteboard in a conference room: customer obsession, frugality, bias for action, ownership,…

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“In a world where consumers had limited choice, you needed to compete for locations,” says Ross, who went on to cofound eCommera, a British…

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“point of view is worth 80 IQ points”—a”

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“Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary, and throughout…

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We see Google experimenting in so many places outside of its core search and advertising business, whether that's bringing broadband Internet to the world…

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“The production philosophy pioneered by Toyota calls for a focus on those activities that create value for the customer and the systematic eradication of…

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“Apple’s founder reportedly fired employees in the elevator and screamed at underperforming executives. Perhaps there is something endemic in the fast-paced technology business that…

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“Just as Clayton Christensen had predicted in The Innovator’s Dilemma, technological innovation caused wrenching pain to the company and the broader industry”

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“Eric Benson took about two weeks to construct a preliminary version that grouped together customers who had similar purchasing histories and then found books…

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Kanye [West] just says the funniest analogies that are so random. I should start keeping a book - in 20 years, I'll have a…

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Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to…

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I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

Mark Z. Danielewski

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A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it,…

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I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name of the…

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“HYSTERICAL HISTORY Bumping into Vincent O’Neil makes me think about what Uncle Frankie said. I need new material for Boston, not Vincent’s stale and…

James Patterson

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'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and I felt…

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“AA makes inflated claims about itself. Its foundational document, Alcoholics Anonymous (commonly referred to as the “Big Book” and a perennial best seller), spells…

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They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book…

William Glasser

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“He savoured the moment. He’d like to take this moment and press it carefully in a big book, so that when he was old…

Terry Pratchett

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I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't possess that…

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I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it.

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