Quotes by Eric Schmidt

About Eric Schmidt:

Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American software engineer, businessman, as well as the executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. In 2013, Forbes ranked Schmidt as the 138th-richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $9.1 billion.
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Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

Eric Schmidt

We are what we tweet.

Eric Schmidt

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.

Eric Schmidt

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

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

Eric Schmidt

Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

Eric Schmidt

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.

Eric Schmidt

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

Eric Schmidt

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.

Eric Schmidt

Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.

Eric Schmidt

People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is ...

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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.

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We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win.

Eric Schmidt

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 misunders...

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If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company or another. Dell is the outlier. Dell built its own culture. They automated themselves to be the most efficient manufactur...

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I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

Eric Schmidt

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

Eric Schmidt

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

Eric Schmidt

I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essentia...

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I do want to emphasize that we've seen an explosion in the use of Google Maps and Google Earth for education. The earth is a special place. It is our home and it's why we're all here. And the ability to see what's really going on the earth, the good ...

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Author Bio

  • NameEric Schmidt
  • DescriptionSoftware engineer, businessman
  • BornApril 27, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionArt Collector; Engineer