24 Quotes by Tom Courtney

At a point when many other e-commerce companies are struggling to reach breakeven, eBay has demonstrated that it has a materially different and better model, which is driving exceptional growth both in sales and earnings.

It's fairly niche-y, it's not going to be a broad based business model that can succeed in a lot of different categories.

I'm initiating a bill next year that would make it so it's a parental decision, ... If it is, then it should satisfy everyone's fears. We don't have a bill yet, but we're working on it.

In the fourth quarter of calendar 1999, sales grew 170 percent year-over-year. In the second quarter they just reported, sales grew 84 percent. So, if you went back six months, Amazon's market capitalization when they generated that 170 percent growth was probably around $25 to $30 billion. Today it's $15 billion.

The cash position doesn't look that bad, but it all depends on the burn rate going forward.

The company has tried to grow as fast as it can, tried to do a lot of things at the same time.