Meg Whitman Quotes

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

E-commerce is not an industry; e-commerce is a tactic.

More and more people are opening online stores and online retail businesses. This market is expanding very, very quickly.

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

E-commerce is a powerful means to connect the unconnected to global trade.

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

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.

No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts.

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 would think that most of the online business will be conducted by traditional retailers and that over 90 per cent of the e-retailers will, in fact, all go out of business.

It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

I don't think anyone is better than Amazon, and all the new generation of enterprise companies are basically copying them.

The Web isn't an electronic storefront to do business in the old way. The Web is the business.

We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act

The online shopping paradigm is finally changing. Indeed, I think we’ve seen more innovation in the last 10 months than in the last 10 years. We’ve seen an explosion of interesting technologies and opportunities that seek to change online shopping.

The internet population is going up and up. I am confident that this will be a huge market.

I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.

While stores continue to be a very important part of our business, there is no mistaking the fact that the customers' shopping preference, measured by both traffic and sales, continues to move to a virtual experience.

Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

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

When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.