Robin Li Quotes

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

The internet thing is what I have the greatest problem with. I don't know if anyone in the media gets the internet thing and Harvey Norman. I think they have some strange interpretation of it that bears no resemblance to what actually happens.

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.

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.

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

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

I think that, in the end, the consumer's going to win on the Internet.

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

The U.S. has more broadband subscribers than any country other than China. Americans rank at the top in their use of the web, and numerous studies validate that the U.S. is a global innovation powerhouse. The leading Internet and e-commerce companies are located here.

When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.

I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

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

Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.

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

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

It's a lot of work to sell one thing on the Internet.

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

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.

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

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

The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet.

I never in my wildest dreams thought that I'd have merchandise selling on a web site. It's just amazing to me.

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.