The last time Amazon didn't post at least 14 percent sales growth in a quarter was the fall of 2001. Whoa.

Check out the chart above; essentially, the last time that Amazon had quarter-over-quarter sales growth of less than 14 percent was, ahem, 2001. This is a completely new model in the business world in some ways, because while their sales growth -- and the consistency of it -- is stunning, they don't actually make that much in the way of profits. In shor…