386 Quotes by 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.

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.

Coach Wooden once said, “Be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

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

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don’t do it.

Silicon Valley’s involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully – who was the CEO of Apple – had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we’re all going, like, ‘What’s going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?’

Identity will be the most valuable commodity for citizens in the future, and it will exist primarily online.

The right strategy has a beauty to it, a sense of many people and ideas working in concert to succeed. Start by asking what will be true in five years and work backward. Examine carefully the things you can assert will change quickly, especially factors of production where technology is exponentially driving down cost curves, or platforms that could emerge. In a five-year timeline there are disrupters – and opportunities – in many markets. What will be the disrupters affecting you?

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.’