Dan Schulman Quotes

For many years, we have repeated that the direct-to-consumer channel is growing and capturing a larger share of our customers' wallet.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Over the years, the way our customers shop our stores and websites has changed and will continue to change with the increasing popularity and convenience of smart phones and tablets.

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

There are retailers successfully combining conventional and online retail, like Argos or John Lewis.

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

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

Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

While stores continue to be a very important part of our business, there is no mistaking the fact that the customers' shopping preference, measured by both traffic and sales, continues to move to a virtual experience.

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

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

I do most of my shopping online. It's just convenient for me.

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.

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

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

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

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.

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

We want to grow the total amount of online commerce.

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