Patrick Pichette Quotes

I am a person who goes out without a purse.

I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.

I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

The world needs another vehicle to get people to pay in cash.

Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.

I was fascinated by the fact that in Osaka, we saw people using their cell phones to pay for small goods.

Cash is going to be killed. It will be nostalgia.

I don't tend to carry much cash around, as I use my bank card whenever I can.

I don't use a wallet. My money is just free-flowing in my bag.

I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.

I can do without a television or a telephone, I think.

I never have cash on me.

The idea of money being something physical is almost entirely a fiction. Sure, you can go to your ATM and pull out cash. And you can feel cash in your back pocket and have some tangible comfort there - but in reality, the majority of your money is a number on a screen.

We were orbiting around the idea of intent and context. We would take the bus into work, and if you said, 'Here's a shirt you might like,' and I open it on my mobile phone, I'm not going to pull out my credit card and wallet. We thought, 'How does someone do this? An e-mail to yourself, or you try to remember?'

Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail - all commercial and social verticals are going digital - including money itself.

The technology, called near-field communication, involves a microchip that can send and receive data across very short distances, about four inches. Instead of swiping a credit card, you hold your phone near a reader and let the data zip between the two devices.

The same way we can send and receive an email with anyone, anywhere, for free, or we can share a photo with anyone instantly for free, money will become these digital tokens, and we'll be able to do that with money.

I think a lot of people have predicted the demise of cash, and they've frequently been wrong. But there's no question that the smartphone is leading to the digitization of money. You really now have all the power of a bank branch in the palm of your hand.

Digital payments have already made it easier to move and manage money. While there's more work to do, the potential is real and understood.

The truth is, I never travel without cash. I always take a few tens with me in case of an emergency. There's never been an emergency, and in time, I realized that Americans don't want to touch customers' dirty bills. They also don't want to touch your credit card: you have to put it through the machine yourself, with your own fingers.

Apple Pay is forever changing the way we pay for things.

I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace.

I don't want to own something that you can't take into your apartment at night.

Technology has come a long way since PayPal.

I always try to travel light.