All Quotes

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

Amazon didn't create any jobs. Amazon probably destroyed a million jobs in our economy.
‐‐ Nick Hanauer

Amazon doesn't want to give Apple a cut of its media sales, so Apple won't let Amazon sell products in its apps.
‐‐ Jeffrey Zeldman

Amazon drove Borders out of business, and the vast majority of Borders employees are not qualified to work at Amazon. That's an actual, full-on problem. But should Amazon have been prevented from doing that? In my view, no.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.
‐‐ Edan Lepucki

Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.
‐‐ Eric Schmidt

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

Amazon is certainly not a perfect company. However, doctors, teachers, engineers, journalists, politicians, and labor unions are also on a continuum of consciousness, and none are perfect either. It is easy to judge and find fault with any company if that is what one's ideological biases wish to see.
‐‐ John Mackey

Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics.
‐‐ Brad Stone

Amazon is not a monopoly or a monopsony, and even if it were, that by itself isn't illegal.
‐‐ J. A. Konrath

Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products - fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source for the secondary market of those products. Google is the authority for information about facts, but they're relatively undifferentiated.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.
‐‐ Edan Lepucki

Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.
‐‐ Brad Stone

Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
‐‐ George Packer

Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.
‐‐ Foster Friess

Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.
‐‐ Max McKeown

Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, despite the fact that Wikileaks had not been charged, let alone convicted, of any crime.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies.
‐‐ Clive Sinclair

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online.
‐‐ Clive Thompson

Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products.
‐‐ David Rose

Ambient Devices is what I call part of the Third Wave of Internet devices.
‐‐ David Rose

Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do.
‐‐ Robert Webb

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
‐‐ Tony Gilroy

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.
‐‐ Skeet Ulrich

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.
‐‐ Gene Wolfe

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.
‐‐ Robert Redford

Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.
‐‐ Janna Levin

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Ambition aspires to descend.
‐‐ Pierre Corneille

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
‐‐ Sallust

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
‐‐ Rebecca Miller

Ambition can creep as well as soar.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.
‐‐ Bruce Forsyth

Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its own neck; therefore, it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble.
‐‐ Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
‐‐ Fergus Henderson

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
‐‐ Sallust

Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions.
‐‐ Ellen Key

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
‐‐ Philip Massinger

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
‐‐ Edward Dahlberg

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
‐‐ Elvis Presley

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
‐‐ Thomas Otway

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
‐‐ Milan Kundera