Brad Stone quote: "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."

There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamental...
BRAD STONE

No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in w...
BRAD STONE

Clearly, people are anticipating recovery. There's pretty consistent selling from a variety of accou...
BRAD STONE

We found a little natural water but no river, ... With the size of the hole we dug, that would have ...
BRAD STONE

The challenge for everybody was that it hadn't been done here, ... This is certainly deeper down tha...
BRAD STONE

We have to pay a premium, but the end experience for the customer is terrific because they come up r...
BRAD STONE

This was born out of necessity, ... We wanted to have a certain size property and we only had so muc...
BRAD STONE

It is a significant growth opportunity.
BRAD STONE

we'll need a little bit more of a concession.
BRAD STONE

There is a difference between caring and not having the legal authority.
BRAD STONE

We saw the market get so oversold that it's not surprising that we're getting a rebound. The market ...
BRAD STONE

I prefer live dealers, ... but the machines treated me all right today.
BRAD STONE

Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, ...
BRAD STONE

Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish,...
BRAD STONE

I think it's a competitive advantage that both Amazon and Google and other tech companies have o...
BRAD STONE

I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it...
YAEL STONE

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.
YAEL STONE

Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.
YAEL STONE

Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that...
YAEL STONE

It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc ...
YAEL STONE

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to se...
YAEL STONE

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the wo...
YAEL STONE

I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then...
YAEL STONE

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another wa...
HARLAN STONE

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a ...
HARLAN STONE

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
HARLAN STONE

Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his...
IRVING STONE

The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development...
IRVING STONE

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the fa...
IRVING STONE

I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to s...
IRVING STONE

In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five ye...
IRVING STONE

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a visi...
IRVING STONE

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
IRVING STONE

I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the inte...
IRVING STONE

I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the reli...
IRVING STONE

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was c...
IRVING STONE

There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you...
IRVING STONE

Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his...
IRVING STONE

I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that mo...
OLIVER STONE

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
OLIVER STONE

You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it w...
OLIVER STONE

In any film there's always a historical implication.
OLIVER STONE

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
OLIVER STONE

But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt...
OLIVER STONE

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment ...
OLIVER STONE

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced...
OLIVER STONE

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
OLIVER STONE

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one...
OLIVER STONE

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with ...
OLIVER STONE

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she...
OLIVER STONE

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder...
OLIVER STONE

I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find th...
OLIVER STONE

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifyin...
OLIVER STONE

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
OLIVER STONE

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that&...
OLIVER STONE

If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great....
OLIVER STONE

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
OLIVER STONE

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of...
OLIVER STONE

There's an electrical thing about movies.
OLIVER STONE

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been ...
OLIVER STONE

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progre...
OLIVER STONE

I study history in order to give an interpretation.
OLIVER STONE

Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to ...
CURTIS STONE

In burgundy, a well-cut and properly tailored velvet blazer looks dashing with gray flannels and a c...
ROGER STONE

Plush velvet conjures up kings and opulence.
ROGER STONE

I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.
LARA STONE

Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
LARA STONE

I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be...
LARA STONE

I work out sort of moderately.
LARA STONE

I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
LARA STONE

In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird ...
LARA STONE

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
LARA STONE

I don't even sing in the shower.
LARA STONE

I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.
LARA STONE

I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.
LARA STONE

When it's colder, your skin needs more attention.
LARA STONE

Like most women, I have days where I feel like today I'm not leaving the house - you know days w...
LARA STONE

I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really w...
LARA STONE

I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond gir...
LARA STONE

I like spending time with my husband.
LARA STONE

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.
LARA STONE

I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.
LARA STONE

Going to rehab was the best decision I ever made.
LARA STONE

I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone w...
LARA STONE

It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.
LARA STONE

Being sexy is something inside, and not everybody has it.
LARA STONE

I'm happy people look at me as a role model.
LARA STONE

Every time I go to the dentist they say, 'You really need to fix that gap of yours'. I'm...
LARA STONE

I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.
LARA STONE

Every well-dressed gentleman must have an all-cotton oxford cloth button-down shirt from Brooks Brot...
ROGER STONE

Unless you are a lawyer or Fortune 500 CEO, carrying a briefcase is, well, nerdy.
ROGER STONE

If you're more interested in looking like a hipster, a jazz musician, or a young hunk, I'd r...
ROGER STONE

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.
JOSS STONE

Life is a means of extracting fiction.
ROBERT STONE

What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it wi...
ROBERT STONE

Nothing ruins the lines of a suit or blazer and makes you look more like a doofus than when your poc...
ROGER STONE

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for ...
STONE GOSSARD

I like my small camper. I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one pl...
SLY STONE

Socks must be at least an 18-percent synthetic blend to insure they don't droop, because droopy ...
ROGER STONE

Lots of hardworking, blue-collar people across America have lost their jobs since the 1990s - victim...
ROGER STONE

I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would...
EMMA STONE

Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put ...
BIZ STONE

Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.
ROGER STONE

When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam...
ROGER STONE

We've got 400,000 girls with beach-y blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in thei...
SHARON STONE

I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces....
EMMA STONE

I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I c...
EMMA STONE

Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which wi...
LUCY STONE

The Establishment on both the Left and the Right, who want to disenfranchise the millions of Republi...
ROGER STONE

I get blamed for things I have nothing to do with.
ROGER STONE

Nothing shows both polish and utility like the nattily tucked pocket handkerchief or 'pocket squ...
ROGER STONE

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and t...
LUCY STONE

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in tot...
OLIVER STONE

The point of school, after all, isn’t to do homework. The point of school is to learn. It was a mi...
BIZ STONE

Trust your instincts, know what you want, and believe in your ability to achieve it. Rules and conve...
BIZ STONE

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.
SHARON STONE

Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go w...
ELIZABETH STONE

If you have a vagina and an attitude in this town, then that's a lethal combination.
SHARON STONE

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
OLIVER STONE

Lunch is for wimps.
OLIVER STONE

Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painti...
OLIVER STONE

Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of...
OLIVER STONE

I think I am aging, but I'm enjoying the process.
SHARON STONE

There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.
MATT STONE

I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincoln...
OLIVER STONE

I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life.
SHARON STONE

I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House...
EMMA STONE

There is nothing - nothing - worse than seeing ankle or a hairy calf when a man in a suit or trouser...
ROGER STONE

I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, ...
SHARON STONE

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play...
JESSE STONE

I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.
EMMA STONE

In Australia, kids play in American accents.
YAEL STONE

I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to ...
MATT STONE

I think women should wear whatever makeup they want for themselves. Makeup should be fun.
EMMA STONE

Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me ...
ANGIE STONE

I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big...
CURTIS STONE

I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes...
ANGIE STONE

The reason I'm a Nixonite is because of his indestructibility and resilience. He never quit.
ROGER STONE

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined u...
JOSS STONE

Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!
EMMA STONE

A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You'r...
STONE GOSSARD

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't ...
SHARON STONE

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get d...
LUCY STONE

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and mu...
LUCY STONE

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we stil...
ANGIE STONE

Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Alm...
JESSE STONE

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at wha...
LUCY STONE

Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I&#...
ANGIE STONE

My favorite thing about L.A. is the sunny breezes that mimic the mindset of the energy in the people...
ANGIE STONE

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and...
LUCY STONE

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those w...
LUCY STONE

I think of dieting, then I eat pizza.
LARA STONE

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I wa...
SHARON STONE

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that...
OLIVER STONE

Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cu...
SHARON STONE

Every man's closet must contain a trench coat. It's hard for any gentleman not to look dashi...
ROGER STONE

That, my dear Liv, was confidence. Talk to someone. Make jokes with them. Seem interested in what th...
DANIKA STONE

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to ...
ROGER STONE

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
IRVING STONE

We're not going to fix housing costs, but we can stress how can we help you move here, if you're int...
BEN STONE

A lot of companies are quietly expanding. Everywhere I go, I pick up more confidence.
BEN STONE

Everybody gets some level of follow-along. We touch base with them on a regular schedule to see how ...
BEN STONE

One of the new things we saw in our last business confidence survey, right up there, was trouble fin...
BEN STONE

If law enforcement misuses them, there should be consequences for that officer, up to and including ...
BEN STONE

When you balance the (privacy) risk . . . is it worth the benefit that may come?
BEN STONE

Our unemployment has been steadily dropping over the past several years. We are going from a time wh...
BEN STONE

Businesses are really now doing much better. There's been a lot of quiet activity. It certainly bode...
BEN STONE

The concept is fine. We are concerned about it being a neutral statute. If you're going to have a re...
BEN STONE

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claus...
SHARON STONE

Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaig...
ROGER STONE

My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads o...
STONE GOSSARD

He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imag...
EMMA STONE

The end of 'City Lights' makes me cry every time I see it - when Charlie Chaplin walks by th...
EMMA STONE

Anthony Weiner is a crafty and worthy adversary - an unrepentant lefty who is usually a savvy media ...
ROGER STONE

So one day, in a fit of trying to do something different, I just dyed my hair dark brown and got my ...
EMMA STONE

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd ...
STONE GOSSARD

Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable.
WILLIAM STONE

I believe the GOP should pitch its big-top tent around fiscal conservatism and a muscular foreign po...
ROGER STONE

They always come back when they learn that not every woman's gonna treat them this good.
ANGIE STONE

The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would l...
ANGIE STONE

I've just gotten another movie called 'Hustle and Flow'. I wanna be an all-round entertainer. I've p...
ANGIE STONE

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when ...
ANGIE STONE

I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes aro...
ANGIE STONE

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some ...
ANGIE STONE

I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.
ANGIE STONE

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.
ANGIE STONE

Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the al...
ANGIE STONE

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.
ANGIE STONE

We focus a lot on culture specifically at Twitter because of this spotlight, and of the fact that we...
BIZ STONE

We use two-thirds water, one-third semi-skimmed milk and cook for 40 minutes on a slow heat. Slow so...
ANTHONY STONE

There are two types of oats on the market. Traditional, which is ground either course, fine or mediu...
ANTHONY STONE

It's an indulgence. A healthy indulgence.
ANTHONY STONE

There will never be better deals to Cancun than what you'll see this year.
ANTHONY STONE

Burberry makes the best version of the traditional trench coat, which can have a zipper and button-i...
ROGER STONE

I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better...
CURTIS STONE

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.
ROBERT STONE

I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35...
SHARON STONE

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved ...
SHARON STONE

Look at the greatest dressers in history - Philadelphia socialite and diplomat Angier Biddle Duke, S...
ROGER STONE

Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhil...
EMMA STONE

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.

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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... That has always been a potent combination.

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