Eric Schmidt Quotes

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.'

I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon.

Do not be afraid to fail, but also, do not be afraid to succeed.

We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about.

In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.

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, I'll figure it out.

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.

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.

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

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever.

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.

We run the company by questions, not by answers.

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

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

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.

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

Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

Even if is 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 life, and likely in others' lives as well... Yes is what keeps us all young. Yes is a tiny word that can do big things. Say it often.

In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.

The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

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.

I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.