Lisa Gansky Quotes

I think that, in the end, the consumer's going to win on the Internet.

Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.

For a while there, companies were pushing technology on people and people were buying it. Now the consumer is really in the driver's seat. Now it's more of an overall solution: How can technology make your life better? How can it save you time?

Retail is now totally propelled by consumers and their needs. People can buy what they want in any way that they want it. That trend started a long time ago, and it has really changed everything.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

The world is changing... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side, let's take the side of the consumer.

People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.

Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.

If consumers make better choices, the marketplace will change.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.

In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.