Jeff Bezos Quotes

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.

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

Each of us has come to share the same point of view, that a global e-marketplace is absolutely essential if we are to drive new levels of efficiency for the industry.

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.

Number one, you can sell before you buy. I call it reverse e-commerce. You take a picture, you list it for sale, you sell it, you collect the revenue, then you go buy it and send it to the customer.

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

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

My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.

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

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

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

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

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 have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that's the easiest part of the game.

The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.

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

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

For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.

Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.

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

In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to be grasped by entrepreneurs.

The promise of the Internet is around this transcendence of physical geography. To a large degree, the Internet has delivered on that promise, but when it comes to the movement of money and the ability to start and operate a business or needing to purchase from a business, it really hasn't.

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.

I gotta keep hustling. I know when it comes to the Internet, we move units. I grew up on the Internet.