386 Quotes by Eric Schmidt

It’s because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.

Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google’s internal predictions.

If you’re going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It’s extraordinarily difficult.

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

John Dewey, an American philosopher and writer, said that “a problem well put is half solved.

We think that if we have made a clever and thoughtful argument, based on data and smart analysis, then people will change their minds. This isn’t true. If you want to change people’s behavior, you need to touch their hearts, not just win the argument.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world’s information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It’s a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Work-life balance. This is another touchstone of supposedly “enlightened” management practices that can be insulting to smart, dedicated employees.

At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company’s success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development.