Michael J. Saylor Quotes

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs.

I dream of a Digital India where e-Commerce drives Entrepreneurship.

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

A great deal of energy is spent daily on pushing the Russian e-commerce boom along while managing all aspects of growth and development along the way.

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

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.

I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.

We think the way out of poverty is to view the poor as producers, and the Internet is probably the most efficient tool we have for tapping this capacity. Because you don't need roads. You don't need customs officials who are friendly. You don't need to manage shipping and delivery schedules. You don't have to worry about tariffs.

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.

Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.

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

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.

The Internet can give young people a fantastic platform to become financially independent and have global businesses without leaving Russia.

When I first started doing work on how the Internet is affecting commerce, like a lot of people, I was really excited by this nearly perfect market.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.

The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.

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

The Web is going to capture an increasing share of people's attention, and billions of dollars are going to flow in. What Web 2.0 is about is harnessing those dollars in highly leverageable ways.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

After I retired, it seemed to me that there was a whole new world out there, which was a digital world driven by a marketplace, basically, which had a huge potential driven by handheld devices, which would one day become the virtual retail store of India.

For technology companies, information about what people do online is extremely valuable - it can be used to sell targeted advertising or sold to data clearinghouses.

People generally think of technology simply as a spur to start new businesses. But the Internet has also made it possible for more businesses to compete for any given opportunity.