Tobias Lutke Quotes

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

Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.

I'm a virtual worker. I'm not tied to an office.

Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.

The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.

If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside.

I'm a home-roamer and can't do study or office scenarios.

I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.

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.

In this day and age, you can write anywhere in the world. You can really live anywhere and have the same career.

Going from having an Atari to a laptop changed everything. It allows me to work anywhere I want and send my work home - I can work anywhere in the world.

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

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.

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

We realized we had high-volume marketplace as a platform. Anyone can come in and buy with a subscription.

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company - from a one-person agency to a small firm, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspect of Internet-based businesses.

The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen.

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting 'face time' are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we have entered a modern era of work where we can work from wherever we want, whenever we want and we can be more productive and make greater contributions than ever before.

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.

The Chinese market is very different. One of the things that I believe is that the biggest, hottest tech trend in China right now is O2O, or online-to-offline.

Once I found out that people were really making careers for themselves off the Internet, independently, I was really inspired.

Most new jobs created by global digital opportunities make people more independent. Fewer people will work for one company at a time or in the same country all the time. More will work remotely across borders.