Large or Well-known Interstate or International Companies Headquartered in The Seattle Metropolitan
This is a list of large or well-known interstate or international companies headquartered in the Seattle Metropolitan Area.
As of May 2010 Seattle, Washington was home to three Fortune 500 companies: clothing merchant Nordstrom (#270), Internet retailer Amazon.com (#100) and coffee chain Starbucks (#241).
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Famous quotes containing the words large, well-known, interstate, companies, seattle and/or metropolitan:
“To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.”
—Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)
“It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do with catching criminals, it has nothing to do with the Mafia, the syndicate, it has nothing to do with trust-busting, it has nothing to do with interstate commerce, it has nothing to do with anything but serving as a church for the mediocre. A high church for the true mediocre.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“Socialite women meet socialite men and mate and breed socialite children so that we can fund small opera companies and ballet troupes because there is no government subsidy.”
—Sugar Rautbord, U.S. socialite fund-raiser and self-described “trash” novelist. As quoted in The Great Divide, book 2, section 7, by Studs Terkel (1988)
“I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)