John Catsimatidis Quotes

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

Walmart is going to be very good at this e-commerce game.

My favorite thing about Los Angeles is there are businesses that you can call, and they will deliver groceries to your house.

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.

Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.

I do most of my shopping online. It's just convenient for me.

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

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

Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player.

Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?

UPS stands as an example of a company that's already doing great things.

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

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

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

I think Snapdeal could become the Alibaba of India.

I use Postmates more than I use the actual telephone app on my phone.

If you're selling t-shirts as a heel - you're selling them - then you've failed miserably.

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.

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.

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

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

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts.

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.