Masayoshi Son Quotes

Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.

All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

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

We really see the future of what we call 'distributed commerce,' so how we get our content, our products, and our brands to consumers.

Alibaba is Alibaba. We are going to keep on, you know, having Alibaba as our core company in our family.

I think Snapdeal could become the Alibaba of India.

I routinely make trips to China and India where we have offices to continue to maintain the linkages that are necessary to run a successful business.

There are lots of things about Amazon for which they deserve credit. They're innovative. There are lots of very, very happy Amazon customers. I'm not here to dispute that Amazon has been personally good for me or to say that they haven't been, so far, good to their customers.

The Fresh Direct model doesn't work.

As retail goes through a fundamental shift into the digital world, I believe Ocado's model and the high standards of customer service it provides will see it emerge as a powerful online player.

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.

E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.

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

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.

We realized we had high-volume marketplace as a platform. Anyone can come in and buy with a subscription.

Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.

I believe Larry Page is moving Google from an advertising-based company to a commerce-based company.

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

For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.

At Amazon, we were not working with the e-commerce division but with the Web services team. We started Flipkart completely from scrap. Moreover, the whole shopping behaviour and infrastructure challenges in the Indian market were different from that in the U.S. and European markets.

Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.

Many years ago, Bill Gates said that one day we'd be able to click on the shoes of a character in a TV show and buy them online. Whether that happens or not, are you thinking about new ways to combine your assets in programming, customer knowledge, and technology?

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

When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.