Daniel H. Pink Quotes

It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

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

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

Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their overheads through e-commerce platforms.

There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

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.

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

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

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

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

I started buying on the Internet quite rapidly, as early as 1995.

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.

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.

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

I would think that most of the online business will be conducted by traditional retailers and that over 90 per cent of the e-retailers will, in fact, all go out of business.

Now an audience of more than 1 billion people is only a click away from every voice online, and remarkable stories and content can gain flash audiences as people share via social networks, blogs and e-mail. This radically equalizes the power relationship between, say, a blogger and a multibillion dollar corporation.

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

A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model 'The Mesh.'

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

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

We all know how the Internet has changed the lives of consumers: it's changed how we communicate, how we shop, how we meet people. It's changed things for businesses too.