Marc Randolph Quotes

Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.

There are lots of things about Amazon for which they deserve credit. They're innovative. There are lots of very, very happy Amazon customers. I'm not here to dispute that Amazon has been personally good for me or to say that they haven't been, so far, good to their customers.

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.

Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.

You cannot underestimate the impact the Internet has had on British fashion.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

The stereotypical successful entrepreneur is Mark Zuckerberg - the young college dropout who dreamed up a crazy idea while in his dorm room.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

I think that we see Steve Jobs as the genius speaker in the mock black turtleneck with the round glasses, sort of beautifully delivering his new product, and I think that for people to understand that he started in a garage.

I think Bezos is incredible.

I don't think anyone is better than Amazon, and all the new generation of enterprise companies are basically copying them.

It's a modern world we live in, with everything at our fingertips, and if it's not at our fingertips, you can dot-com anything.

I was not thinking about the age of Internet when I was making the fall-winter 2012 collection.

I'm a weird guy with a weird sense of humor.

I was always a computer kid, and I grew up with the Internet and always found it fascinating.

I was ringside for Amazon and Google.

I always had an oddball sense of humour.

Everything about the Net is wonderful.

I'm a weird goofy dork.

With the way Amazon and eBay had become big companies and with the way people were embracing technology, I was like, it is so obvious that this is going to be a huge game changer in this space. The combination of these things is going to change what it means to retail, what it means to launch brands, what it means to connect with your consumer.

Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.

As the Internet has sped up the consumer experience, customer expectations are higher.

Zuckerberg rejected $2 billion for Facebook and has successfully created a company worth nearly $200 billion.

Amazon has done something for all of retail, which is resetting the customer expectations about how quickly and easily you can get things.