Top 100 Benioff Quotes
#1. I knew David Benioff a bit socially. I knew his wife, Amanda Peet. He's a smart guy, so I always sought him out at dinner parties.
Peter Dinklage
#2. I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.
Larry Ellison
#3. I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have they ever argued that being public prevented them from doing things with a long-term focus.
Bill Gurley
#4. They talk about a lot of different things, but I think they definitely have the same school of thought as my husband [Games Of Thrones creator David Benioff], which is that the difference between being a writer and not being a writer is finishing.
Amanda Peet
#5. They have decided nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.
David Benioff; City of Thieves
David Benioff
#6. People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss co-creators of 'Game Of Thrones) are even bloodier than I am.
George R R Martin
#7. If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.
David Benioff
#8. This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.
David Benioff
#9. It smelled like jail ... sore knees and loose assholes.
David Benioff
#10. Movies that are subtitled don't usually do as well in American theatres.
David Benioff
#11. I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind
Marc Benioff
#12. So many die without our caring, decline to silence in rooms beyond hearing. We honor the dead and abhor the dying.
- from the story De Composition
David Benioff
#14. The man knows he's a target. He's very careful. The'll find the guns.'
Kolya responded with a mournful fart, low and solemn as a single note of a baritone horn.
David Benioff
#15. Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
David Benioff
#16. Don't forget to do something for other people.
Marc Benioff
#17. Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.
David Benioff
#18. Markov's not important,' she said. 'I'm not important. You're not important. Winning the war, that's the only important thing.'
'No,' I said, 'I disagree. Markov was important. So am I and so are you. That's why we have to win.
David Benioff
#19. The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks. Customers are discussing a company's products and brand in real time. Companies need to join the conversation.
Marc Benioff
#20. One idea alone is a tactic, but if it can be executed a number of different ways, it becomes a great strategy.
Marc Benioff
#21. I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.
David Benioff
#22. I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.
David Benioff
#23. Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.
Marc Benioff
#24. Social embedded business processes that solve concrete needs are key to enterprise social collaboration.
Marc Benioff
#25. 'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.
David Benioff
#26. He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.
David Benioff
#27. Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.
Marc Benioff
#28. The days had become a confusion of catastrophes; what seemed impossible in the afternoon was blunt fact by the evening.
David Benioff
#29. If you bill something as a memoir, you're implying that everything in it is true.
David Benioff
#30. If there wasn't any competition, I'd be very worried, because it would mean we were not doing very well.
Marc Benioff
#31. Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.
David Benioff
#33. You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.
David Benioff
#34. Learning to code at a young age opened my eyes to the incredibly exciting world of technology and entrepreneurship. Our youth deserve the opportunity to learn the skills that will enable them to succeed in our connected world.
Marc Benioff
#36. The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.
David Benioff
#37. You need to have a beginner's mind to create bold innovation.
Marc Benioff
#38. Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn't register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you're too daft to know you're mortal?
David Benioff
#39. Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.
Marc Benioff
#40. Don't worry, my friend. I won't let you die.
I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.
David Benioff
#41. 'Game Of Thrones' was too big a canvas for a movie, but 'Dirty White Boys' is like a great old Western: there's so much compression, and it's so pressurized, it demands to be told in one sitting.
David Benioff
#42. Philanthropy isn't just about big gifts; it's about participation. It is about the grace that comes from working together.
Marc Benioff
#44. If this is a dream the whole world is inside it.
David Benioff
#45. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen.
David Benioff
#46. That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a dozen eggs, and come home?"
"Well, anything would sound ridiculous if said it in that tone of voice."
"Tone of ... I'm asking you a question!
David Benioff
#47. I don't like extremely long movies. I tend to get a bit impatient. There are definitely exceptions, like 'Lawrence of Arabia,' but for the most part, I feel that movies should usually be shorter and not longer.
David Benioff
#48. If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.
Marc Benioff
#49. I can't measure up to Homer. His composition has survived for nearly three millennia and remains the world's most beautiful and mournful depiction of war. But the story of the Trojan War does not belong to Homer. The characters he employs were legendary long before he was born.
David Benioff
#50. Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger' is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga.
David Benioff
#51. A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.
David Benioff
#52. The only constant in the technology industry is change.
Marc Benioff
#53. We strive always to have a beginner's mind.
Marc Benioff
#54. To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.
David Benioff
#55. Nothing is going to make you happier in your life than giving
Marc Benioff
#56. The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.
Marc Benioff
#57. You need to get to the future, ahead of your customers, and be ready to greet them when they arrive.
Marc Benioff
#58. The lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.
David Benioff
#59. One problem we discovered, for example, was that our "create a new account" button was in the wrong place ... By simply moving it to the left side, mirroring the way people read, we saw a huge improvement in the way people used the site.
Marc Benioff
#60. Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world.
Marc Benioff
#61. Hollywood screenwriters tend to have the longevity of NFL running backs. So the truth is no one can put more pressure on us than we put on ourselves.
David Benioff
#62. I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.
David Benioff
#63. I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.
David Benioff
#64. There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.
Marc Benioff
#65. Those words you want to say right now? Don't say them.' He smiled and cuffed my cheek with something close to real affection. 'And that, my friend, is the secret to living a long life'.
David Benioff
#66. Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.
David Benioff
#67. If we piled them up, they would reach God.' 'But God does not exist, Comrade Farmer.' 'Nor do the potatoes, Comrade Stalin.' " "Old one." "Jokes only get old if they're good. Otherwise, who keeps telling them?" "People like you who aren't funny?
David Benioff
#68. With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
David Benioff
#69. The cloud services companies of all sizes; the cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy.
Marc Benioff
#70. -What's the good news?
-Pardon?
-You said the bad news is we're going the wrong way.
-There isn't any good news. Just because there's bad news doesn't mean there's good news, too.
David Benioff
#71. I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.
Marc Benioff
#72. I don't type my sentences on an arena's pitch, surrounded by thousands of cheering or booing fans - I don't feel pressure to please a crowd.
David Benioff
#73. Everyone knew this was the episode that was going to make or break the season.
David Benioff
#74. Kolya was a braggart, a know-it-all, a Jew-baiting Cossack, but his confidence was so pure and complete it no longer seemed like arrogance, just the mark of a man who had accepted his own heroic destiny.
David Benioff
#75. Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.
Marc Benioff
#76. With screenplays, it's all about being as concise as possible. If you have a scene that's set in a bar, you just have to write, 'Interior: Bar.'
David Benioff
#77. I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.
David Benioff
#78. Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.
David Benioff
#79. As we talk about devices, you should never forget that behind every one there is a person - a customer. Its not the Internet of Things, but the Internet of People - of customers. We are moving to one-to-one relationships.
Marc Benioff
#80. The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.
Marc Benioff
#82. The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye ...
David Benioff
#83. The concept that I like the most, and the one that I've taken most to heart, is the belief that people can't be united or focused unless they share a common philosophy-a philosophy that gives their effort a greater meaning.
Marc Benioff
#85. But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.
David Benioff
#86. Life grows relative to one's investment in it.
Marc Benioff
#87. I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.
Marc Benioff
#88. In school all I wanted to do was build technology. That's what I loved.
Marc Benioff
#89. In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.
Marc Benioff
#90. There are a lot of politicians who are just obstructionists.
Marc Benioff
#91. There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.
David Benioff
#92. I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.
Marc Benioff
#93. I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.
David Benioff
#94. 'The 25th Hour' came out of the decision - a really very conscious decision - that I needed a story set within a compressed time frame because that would help focus the story.
David Benioff
#95. Fear is part of our inheritance.
Lev from City of Thieves
David Benioff
#96. The eternal challenge for screenwriter adapters is figuring out how to make something work on screen, when so much of what made it work in the book were the thoughts of the character, and obviously wanting to avoid voiceover.
David Benioff
#97. There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.
David Benioff
#98. The real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Nothing will make you happier than giving.
Marc Benioff
#99. We believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so we can transform that into larger market share.
Marc Benioff
#100. My approach to politics is that I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I'm an American and I always support candidates I think are great for the country.
Marc Benioff
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