Top 588 Amazon Rainforest Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.

I've heard that the two plants that make Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis) in the Amazon, are increasingly difficult to find in the wild.

Until Amazon creates a drone that can cut your hair, there's a physical and real reason to come to the store.

At the end of the 1990s, we decided we should invest our best efforts to work in a sustainable way with the ingredients that the Amazon produces.

Amazon has done something for all of retail, which is resetting the customer expectations about how quickly and easily you can get things.

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

The biggest ones [online stores] I go back to are Amazon.com and eBay.com because it’s great for music and books... I collect vintage vinyl records.

Oh God, don't let me go on Amazon Prime at one in the morning 'cause I always buy something I don't need.

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Corporations like Google, Facebook, Amazon, all of these large companies, are making tens or hundreds of billions of dollars off of monetising people's data.

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.

That's the trouble with the world we live in. It's full of people just doing their job and ignoring what's really going on. Care about the rainforest until they get a couple of kids and enough money for a gas guzzling car, or some hardwood dining furniture. Watch all those wildlife programmes and coo over the furry animals, but still eat meat and poultry that was raised in conditions of unbelievable cruelty.

I was an early adopter of the 'Hunger Games.' I read them before they were best sellers - I was on the pre-order wait list for 'Mockingjay' on Amazon.

The digital revolution is forever. They put importance on that option as well. With Amazon, you're getting the best of both worlds, with a whole new playing field.

Browse Amazon reviews, and you'll see a surprising number of readers who believe one novel can summarize a country, its culture, and its people.

Amazon's capitulation to those opposed to their expansion in New York City is an epic moment for people power over an enormous corporate bully.

The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

My one hope for Netflix and Amazon is to be a little more art house- and indie-friendly, pushing those just as hard as they push their originals.

We don't think at all about how the AWS business complements the Amazon business from a financial overview perspective.

If we're the country that makes Amazon and Facebook and Twitter, why can't the federal government have websites and digital services that are awesome?

You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government.

Books of exploration have always fascinated me, like somebody going up the Amazon for the first time.

Groceries, TV shows, and shoes are a few categories Amazon has been willing to hang onto for years.

I'm quite happy sat in front of the telly watching everything on Sky, Netflix, Amazon Prime. And the one called Roku. I've got the lot.

There are so many entertainment options - Netflix, Amazon, Hulu - and especially for younger people, who are Internet-savvy and video game fans.

Billionaires who want to influence politics could get better 'returns on investment' than from early stage Amazon.

The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100.

Trump has hated Amazon for a long time, and I think that that came out in many interviews that he's done with 'Vanity Fair' and with others.

Amazon has a good track record for blowing up industries, and fashion needs to look at what has happened to music, publishing and media.

With the blessing of social media and platforms like Amazon Prime and Netflix, you get this broad audience that I don't think we knew about when we were kids.

One of my favorite fish is the Arapaima. It lives in the Amazon and they grow maybe nine feet long and one might weigh two of me.

Amazon deliberately provides cafeteria space for only a third of its employees, which encourages people to venture out of the office.

I have not Googled myself. I have not looked at myself on Amazon. It could drive you wild.

She was plump, with dyed red hair and a face so caked with cosmetics that the floor of the Amazon jungle probably saw more natural light.

If we don't do our job well, then there's no doubt that big, strong companies like Amazon will look into whether they can do better themselves.

I once went down the Amazon and our boat got charged by Columbian policemen with guns and we all had to get on motorbikes and whip across town.

I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.

Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.

My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions.

It's organic. It's like a river. One stream comes in and it meets another stream and becomes the Amazon.

I am not too much into Netflix and Amazon because spending quality time with family is more valuable.

The higher a book's sales ranks, the better chances it has of being noticed by Amazon's internal recommendations engine.

I'd really like to go down the Amazon in some capacity. I've spent time in the Congo, so I love the jungle.

We had a really animated debate about whether we should allow third-party sellers to sell on the Amazon site.

Seattle was hardly a tech magnet before Amazon, Microsoft, and then a host of once-fledgling technology firms set up operations there.

Obviously there's Netflix, iTunes, and Amazon and all these other outlets. Fake It So Real is now on Fandor, and I think people have actually seen it there, which is fine.

There aren't that many actors with hair like this. And Amazon are casting Aragorn and they're doing Interview with the Vampire' on Hulu, so there's all these good jobs.

Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon

Amazon may be the only studio that's run by people who come out of making independent movies, real hands-on moviemaking.

The reason Netflix chose to use AWS is because they knew they'd be treated as every bit as important a customer as Amazon the retailer is.

Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled by Amazon.

I don't think anyone is better than Amazon, and all the new generation of enterprise companies are basically copying them.

Most things that people want already exist, and with Amazon or eBay, there is always someone who is willing to undercut your price.

It would take enormous expertise for Amazon to win in every category. Do you think McDonald's could be number one in hamburgers, seafood, and Chinese food?

Many leading studios and production houses in India are in the queue to make original content for Netflix and Amazon Prime as well.

We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient evidence also reveals a vision of gender equality.