Tim Cook Quotes

The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.

Customers have different need states and life experiences.

There is no question that there is a capability that the Internet affords us to get a closer look at the customer and to be closer to the customer.

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.

I think reconceptualizing Microsoft as a devices and services company is absolutely what our vision is all about. Office 365 and Azure on the services side are representative of it.

In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.

The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business.

There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious and unconscious patterns into data sets and algorithms has revolutionized what they know about us and, therefore, how precisely they can sell.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

The rise of digital technology put marketers in a bind. No longer a captive audience, consumers were splitting their time across devices, social networks and websites.

Social media has given companies access to unprecedented amounts of information on client behavior and preferences - so-called Big Data. But making sense of it all and turning it into actionable policy has been elusive.

I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

When you take the individual out of the equation, then you're making programming based on some marketer's idea of what will sell, and not based on the idea of what an individual would like.

The IT industry is driven by consumer demand.

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

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of 'average,' Instead, you will see the era of you.

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?

Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.

Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.

When I first started at HSN, I knew that retailers would have to be poised to take advantage of technology and the rapidly changing ways in which people shop. It was one of the things that drew me to the company.

You need to change analog-business rules to meet Web-deliverable rules - not the other way around.

Technological advances are changing what clients need, the services we provide, and how we interact with them.

The music industry really has to learn a lesson from the tech industry about what scale means at the end of the day and learning how to monetize.