Jack Ma Quotes

In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basically good.

We want to grow the total amount of online commerce.

The Russian customers don't feel very comfortable with online transactions.

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.

Connections and relationships are important everywhere, anywhere - of course in China, because the rule of law it is not as strong as in the West, so a lot would rely on personal relationships.

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

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.

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

We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.

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

Alibaba model is the model that I am supporting in China, in India, and even in Japan.

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

Through e-commerce, women have found a means to jump over cultural and traditional lack of available time for remunerated activities.

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

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

But I will just make the slight point here - I have never ever bought anything online. I don't know how to.

We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act

The difference between online and offline commerce is basically blurring and disappearing.

It's strange the way Instagram has become a really crazy sourcing opportunity for me. I never thought I'd be saying that, but you see these amazing vendors halfway across the world.

Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders, which were the big, dominant corporations of the day, and that they would disrupt them and make them less powerful, but they could never envision that Amazon would overtake them all.

Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional.

Online payment will continue to play an ever-growing and significant role in the development of e-commerce as well as the stimulation of consumer demand.

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.