Eric Schmidt famous quotes

04-17-2025

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 it, you say, 'I must have it.'
-- Eric Schmidt

#Space #People #Moments
If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Law #Difficult #Working It
A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Perception #Mind #Way
Each country makes a different decision on adult pornography, but the good news is that even governments you hate, hate child pornography.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Country #Children #Hate
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.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Humanity #Anarchy #Firsts
In many countries adult ***** legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Country #Adults #Legislation
Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Succeed #Failing
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

#Jobs #Curious #Never Change
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

#Views #Two #Space
You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It's very difficult for governments that are autocratic and don't have broad popular support to be in power when a lot of people have these devices. That was what Arab Spring was about, that people could express this and lead to revolution.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Spring #Government #People
For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that?... look them in the eyes and say, Ill figure it out.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Leadership #Smart #Eye
Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference in your - and likely in others' lives as well. Yes is what keeps us all young. It's a tiny word that can do big things. Say it often.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Inspirational #Mean #Differences
In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Important #World #Currency
Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Inspiration #Opportunity #Innovation
The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything,
-- Eric Schmidt

#Government #Surveillance #Solutions
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

#Want #Firsts #Privacy
Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Technology #Google #Topics
The trend has been mobile was winning. It's now won.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Winning #Phones #Trends
If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Plans
We don't have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you'd find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Real #Thinking #Technology
Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever
-- Eric Schmidt

#Forever #Remember #Computer
There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Civilization #Dawn #Information
There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Leadership #People #Evil
The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information,
-- Eric Schmidt

#Data #Information #Way
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,
-- Eric Schmidt

#Successful #Persistence #Looks
Find a way to say yes to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learn something new. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids.
-- Eric Schmidt

#Country #Jobs #Kids

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