Top 100 Quotes About Eric Schmidt
#1. The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo Eric Schmidt's view that privacy is for people who have something to hide. But none of them would willingly give me the passwords to their email accounts, or allow video cameras in their homes.
Glenn Greenwald
#2. Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data every two days
Eli Pariser
#3. Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that's really true, which is, he would say, 'Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.'
Marissa Mayer
#4. If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
Eric Schmidt
#5. If you focus on your competition, you will never deliver anything truly innovative.
Eric Schmidt
#6. If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.
Eric Schmidt
#7. You need to have confidence in your people, and enough self-confidence to let them identify a better way.
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#8. I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.
Eric Schmidt
#9. A technical insight is a new way of applying technology or design that either drives down the cost or increases the functions and usability of the product by a significant factor.
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#10. Every 2 days we create as much information as we did up to 2003.
Eric Schmidt
#11. In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.
Eric Schmidt
#12. And for more egregious offenses, you need to get rid of the knave, quickly. Think
Eric Schmidt
#13. The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies.
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#15. Google's architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing. We're a perfect back end to the problems that they're trying to solve.
Eric Schmidt
#16. By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.
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#18. I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.
Eric Schmidt
#19. We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.
Eric Schmidt
#21. In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.
Eric Schmidt
#22. No matter what a person's job is, they should be encouraged to have opinions about the business, industry, customers and partners,
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#23. If you want better performance from the best, celebrate and reward it
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#24. General Electric CEO Jack Welch said in Winning: No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.
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#25. Give the wrong people a big challenge, and you'll induce anxiety. But give it to the right people, and you'll induce joy.
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#26. To be a thought leader, you have to have a thought.
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#28. The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.
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#29. Are there members of your team whom, if they told you they were leaving, you would not fight hard to keep? If there are employees you would let go, then perhaps you should.
Eric Schmidt
#30. You should hire the best engineer you can find, regardless of her coding preference, because if she's the best she can down enough Java to C how to make the Python Go.
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#31. Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have to worry about every one of them. This is also known as knowing where the off button is.
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#32. We used to think that the enterprise was the hardest customer to satisfy, but we were wrong. It turns out, consumers are harder than the enterprise because the consumer will not give you a second chance.
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#33. Establishing a successful hiring culture that delivers a steady stream of outstanding people starts with understanding the role of recruiters in sourcing candidates. Hint: It isn't their exclusive realm.
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#34. In the Internet Century, the objective of creating networks is not just to lower costs and make operations more efficient, but to create fundamentally better products.
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#35. When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.
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#36. Tom Lehrer line - "Life is like a sewer: What you get out of it depends on what you put into it"112 - and a promise that if they put real effort into the exercises, he will help them.
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#37. A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.
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#38. We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.
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#39. The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.
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#40. It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear multiple voices. They want to make their own decisions. And people who see things will report things.
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#41. Working from home during normal working hours, which to many represents the height of enlightened culture, is a problem that - as Jonathan frequently says - can spread throughout a company and suck the life out of its workplace.
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#42. The business world traditionally rewards people for being closer to the top (case in point: outrageous CEO salaries) or for being closer to the transactions (investment bankers, salespeople).
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#43. Search companies, which I won't mention by name, tried to do so many things at the same time, they forgot all about search. They either missed the next revolution of search or they created an opening for a Google to enter.
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#44. John Seely Brown, the former director of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, once said, The essence of being human involves asking questions, not answering them.
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#46. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. Video is something that we think is going to be embedded everywhere. And it makes sense, from Google's perspective, to be the operator of the largest site that contains all that video.
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#47. It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.
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#48. We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about;
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#49. The lack of a delete button on the internet is a significant issue,
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#50. I use Google+, and I find the quality of the comments are very sophisticated because there is more trust inside of Google+ than there is inside of Twitter and Facebook, for example.
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#51. In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that's the best use of my time.
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#52. It's also true that many companies get comfortable doing what they have always done, with a few incremental changes. This kind of incrementalism leads to irrelevance over time, especially in technology, because change tends to be revolutionary not evolutionary.
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#53. The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives.
Eric Schmidt
#54. With your permission you give us more information about you, your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches. We don't need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less guess what you're thinking about.
Eric Schmidt
#55. Stop being an idiot; all that matters is growth.
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#56. The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.
Eric Schmidt
#57. Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.
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#58. The building block of organizations should be small teams. Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, at one point had a "two-pizza team" rule,41 which stipulates that teams be small enough to be fed by two pizzas.
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#59. Market research can't tell you about solving problems that customers can't conceive are solvable. Giving the customer what he wants is less important than giving him what he doesn't yet know he wants.
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#60. Praise is underused and underappreciated as a management tool.
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#61. Can a robot be brave? Can it selflessly sacrifice? Can a robot, trained to identify and engage targets, have some sense of ethics or restraint?
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#62. In our case, we focus on quality, and we have a very simple model. If we show fewer ads that are more targeted, those ads are worth more. So we're in this strange situation where we show a smaller number of ads and we make more money because we show better ads. And that's the secret of Google.
Eric Schmidt
#63. The trend has been mobile was winning. It's now won.
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#64. Each country makes a different decision on adult pornography, but the good news is that even governments you hate, hate child pornography.
Eric Schmidt
#65. Or you could take a more deliberate approach. Adjust your course. Make your five-years-out ideal job closer to your if-only-I-could dream job, yet attainable from your current path. We've seen even this simple act of setting the right goal turn around people's careers.
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#66. Google dress code was: "You must wear something".
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#67. You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.
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#68. Mobile is the future and there's no such thing as communication overload
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#69. Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value.
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#70. There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.
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#71. In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.
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#72. Dictatorial tendencies rarely contain themselves to just one aspect of work.
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#73. Perhaps it's human nature, or just corporate nature, but most people tend to think incrementally rather than transformationally or galactically.
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#74. The tectonic, technology-driven shifts that characterize the Internet Century have rendered some of the commonly accepted strategic fundamentals we learned in school and on the job incorrect.56
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#75. incrementalism leads to irrelevance over time,
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#76. Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.
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#77. Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.
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#78. Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.
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#79. In other words, if you can't win the game, change the rules.
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#80. Smart creatives thrive on interacting with each other. The mixture you get when you cram them together is combustible, so a top priority must be to keep them crowded.
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#81. It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge ... but their persistence at something,
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#82. Keep in mind, from the outset, that the best way to avoid having to fire underperformers is not to hire them.
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#83. Innovative people do not need to be told to do it, they need to be allowed to do it.
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#84. The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.
Eric Schmidt
#85. Android's great Sky Map is an astronomy application that turns a phone into a star chart. It was built by a team of Googlers in their spare time (what we call "20 percent time" - more on that later), not because they love to program computers, but because they were enthusiastic amateur
Eric Schmidt
#86. Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.
Eric Schmidt
#87. You can attract the best smart creatives with factors beyond money: the great things they can do, the people they'll work with, the responsibility and opportunities they'll be given, the inspiring company culture and values, and yes, maybe even free food and happy dogs sitting desk-side.
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#89. Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google's internal predictions.
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#90. I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon,
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#91. In the inevitable showdown between speed and quality, quality must prevail.
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#92. In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.
Eric Schmidt
#93. Of course, the world will be filled with gadgets, holograms that allow a virtual version of you to be somewhere else, and endless amounts of content, so there will be plenty of ways to procrastinate, too - but the point is that when you choose to
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#94. In the Internet Century, a product manager's job is to work together with the people who design, engineer, and develop things to make great products.
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#95. We run the company by questions, not by answers.
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#96. There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.
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#97. The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.
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#98. I had always assumed that the right way to do it was to these engineers, put them in offices by themselves with doors that they could close so they could think deep thoughts. This is a terrible idea.
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#99. Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that's a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.
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#100. Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.
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