Jeff Bezos Quotes

Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books.

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it's hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I'm convinced that the catalogue will eventually disappear, but not until the last baby boomers have kicked off their smelly Nikes and been buried in mulch.

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

There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

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.

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

The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.

Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

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.

Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones.

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

We all know how the Internet has changed the lives of consumers: it's changed how we communicate, how we shop, how we meet people. It's changed things for businesses too.

Ibotta represents the future of how mobile technology will be used to drive both in-store and online sales. Not only does Ibotta allow retailers to drive sales directly in store, but it also allows them to see what type of media engagement has the largest effect on resulting customer purchases.

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

Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.

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

I am a sucker for Instagram shopping.

To be on Amazon, we reached so many more people, and people can be aware of our products a lot faster. It is a plus for us, definitely.

I was not thinking about the age of Internet when I was making the fall-winter 2012 collection.

Consumers have a different path to purchase. They don't shop less than they used to; it is just that the footsteps went online. You have to think differently in how you engage with users.

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

Selling through the internet seems to be a very good idea. There are a million areas that we can go to.