Brad Stone Quotes

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.

Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders, which were the big, dominant corporations of the day, and that they would disrupt them and make them less powerful, but they could never envision that Amazon would overtake them all.

Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels.

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

We don't believe the market can be dominated by one company in e-commerce in China - namely Alibaba. The Chinese market is very wide and deep, with a huge population.

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

There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.

I think Snapdeal could become the Alibaba of India.

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

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

When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.

If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.

Capitalism will kill competition.

By experience you should be well aware that in the Indies trade has to be pursued and maintained under the protection of one's own arms and that the weapons must be financed through the profits so earned by trade. In short, trade without war or war without trade cannot be maintained.

Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.

King Leopold himself wrote thousands of letters and memoranda that reveal his lust for colonies and profits.

People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn't make it Google.

Our view is that just because Amazon can disrupt somebody else's profit stream, it doesn't mean that Amazon earns that profit stream.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

Amazon and Snap both have stories that are compelling for many investors: Amazon has transformed retailing and is destined to dominate it. Snap is reinventing communication, at least for millennials and those even younger.

Tesla has defied everyone's predictions again and again. It has such a unique position in the market, and so far, whatever people think about Tesla and its business model, there is one fact that nobody can dispute: It pretty much has the market to itself.