Natalie Massenet Quotes

For us, the reason that our quality has been high, and I feel that our pricing has been reasonable, is because we don't wholesale.

If you are a manufacturer, an Internet company doesn't suit you. An Internet company does not display your product; it can't upsell. But we do a better job than any of the opposition.

We're not waiting for the fashion cycle to have 180 buyers come in and see the collection and go, 'We like it, we'll buy it, and we'll have it in June.' The only one we're selling to is Net-A-Porter, and the rest is through our site.

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

The purpose of a business is to create customers.

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

Selling online is one channel, but it's not the only channel.

I said the only way I would join Pets.com was if I could get Amazon to invest, and I did. I knew that anything that could be sourced externally, Amazon could do better and cheaper than anyone else except Walmart. It was really obvious to me.

For any business that has an indirect model to move into the direct business is very difficult and very challenging.

It [eBook] is like introducing the machine gun to a revolutionary war. It changes everything. If you can reach your fans directly without having to go through a middle man, the entire economics of the publishing business changes.

Not long ago, the term 'business model' was not exactly on the tip of everyone's tongue. Then, in the early to mid-1990s, 'business model' became a catchphrase that described how a company makes money or saves money.

I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.

I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.

I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.

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

People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.

The price of an e-book is a lot less than the price that we're charging for a hardcover book. It's about the same as we charge for a paperback. And that means a different revenue stream.

Terrain has seen a strong uptick in brand awareness and direct-to-consumer traffic from their inclusion in the Anthropologie Group.

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.

In the direct-to-consumer channel, we continue to look at the entire world as an extension opportunity for all of our brands.

I believe Larry Page is moving Google from an advertising-based company to a commerce-based company.

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

We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.

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