Jack Ma Quotes

Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their overheads through e-commerce platforms.

I'm not one of those people who hates Amazon because they're big. Why pay a third more for the same thing?

Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

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

For many years, we have repeated that the direct-to-consumer channel is growing and capturing a larger share of our customers' wallet.

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.

I like to shop. That's what I do. Online shopping; any kind of shopping.

I know the price of lettuce. You need to understand price and value. You buy the best lettuce you can at the best price you can.

Truth is, people like buying things for $0.99 and $1.99 for their digital devices. We know that from iTunes. We know that from the app store, and now we know that from publishing.

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

I started buying on the Internet quite rapidly, as early as 1995.

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.

There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.

We don't believe the market can be dominated by one company in e-commerce in China - namely Alibaba. The Chinese market is very wide and deep, with a huge population.

One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance to 'name your own price' for a variety of products, including airline tickets.

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

We want to grow the total amount of online commerce.

As homeowners see the value of their homes decline, they become more likely to delay purchases of the big items - like automobiles, electronics and home appliances - that are ballasts of the American economy. When those purchases decline, large manufacturing firms, suddenly short on funds, could begin laying off employees.

Alibaba model is the model that I am supporting in China, in India, and even in Japan.

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

Most things that people want already exist, and with Amazon or eBay, there is always someone who is willing to undercut your price.

Offline, anything is expensive. Online is much cheaper, usually, to do almost anything.

I am a sucker for Instagram shopping.