35 Of Eric Schmidt's Remarkable Quotes
The renowned American software engineer Eric Schmidt is the executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. which is the holding company that owns Google and its subsidiaries. He started his career at Bell Labs and went on to work in various renowned companies. He with his perfect blend of technical intellect and business intelligence earned a reputation as an efficient business executive. While he was the CEO and chairman of Novell he was hired by the founders of Google as CEO. Google was then a small company as it had been there for just two years. Eric in his initial years focused on improving the company’s infrastructure. Under him Google witnessed rapid growth and was soon was one of the fastest growing companies in the world. He further went on to become the executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. He is also a great philanthropist and has donated significantly to various foundations to develop the society through ‘The Schmidt Family Foundation’. The below collection of Eric Schmidt’s most famous quotes have been excerpted from his writings, books, interviews and thoughts. Go through these quotes to be inspired by the man who developed a small company into an undisputed king of internet.
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.
If you focus on your competition, you will never deliver anything truly innovative.
Innovative people do not need to be told to do it, they need to be allowed to do it.
Google dress code was: "You must wear something".
Make sure you would work for yourself.
To innovate, you must learn to fail well. Learn from your mistakes:
Ego creates blind spots.
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
You need to have confidence in your people, and enough self-confidence to let them identify a better way.
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.
The most valuable result of 20 percent time isn’t the products and features that get created, it’s the things that people learn when they try something new.
70/20/10 became our rule for resource allocation: 70 percent of resources dedicated to the core business, 20 percent on emerging, and 10 percent on new.
If I give you a penny, then you’re a penny richer and I’m a penny poorer, but if I give you an idea, then you will have a new idea but I’ll have it too.
Don’t tell me, show me.
The business should always be outrunning the processes, so chaos is right where you want to be.
Product excellence is now paramount to business success—not control of information, not a stranglehold on distribution, not overwhelming marketing power
Open up everyone’s calendar so that employees can see what other employees are doing.
It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. —CHARLES F. KETTERING, American inventor and businessman
The Internet is the largest experiment involving anarchy in history.
If you want to change people’s behavior, you need to touch their hearts, not just win the argument. We call this the Oprah Winfrey rule.
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Steve Jobs was one of the greatest business divas the world has ever known!)
Praise is underused and underappreciated as a management tool.
Twitter is not a technology company, it is a publishing company.
Coach Wooden once said, “Be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.
Dictatorial tendencies rarely contain themselves to just one aspect of work.
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.
Information is costly to produce but cheap to reproduce.
It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.
