Jack Ma Quotes

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

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

Online transactions, once relegated to leaps of faith, have evolved into our status quo. We no longer ask ourselves whether or not it's wise to buy online. Instead, we ask whether or not it's wise to deal with a particular person, service provider, or business.

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

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.

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

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

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

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.

With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.

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

We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

We want to grow the total amount of online commerce.

When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.

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

When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.

We're building a unique global platform...In the last 18 months we found that sellers and partners are interested in complementing their online and offline businesses with Amazon's platform

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

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.

I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.

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

There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet.

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.

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.