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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The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see ...

Eric Schmidt

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

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Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a lo...

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The funny thing about advertising is that it's not a zero-sum game... Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it's possible for everyone to win, and it's perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time.

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There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.

Eric Schmidt

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.

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People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.

Eric Schmidt

And the more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.

Eric Schmidt

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

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Remember, when you go to YouTube, you do a search. When you go to Google, you do a search. As we get the search integrated between YouTube and Google, which we're working on, it will drive a lot of traffic into both places. So the trick, overall, is ...

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We know that Google Earth and Google Maps have had a tremendous impact on Google traffic, users, brand, adoption, and advertisers. We also know Google News, for example, which we don't monetize, has had a tremendous impact on searches and on query qu...

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If you think about YouTube, YouTube is a 'searching the world's videos' problem, right? They all have to be there, but how do you find them? What I guess I'm trying to say is that search is still the killer app.

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A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'

Eric Schmidt

There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.

Eric Schmidt

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

Eric Schmidt

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

Eric Schmidt

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

Eric Schmidt

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.

Eric Schmidt

I think it's pretty clear that the Internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are.

Eric Schmidt

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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The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.

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Author Bio

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