386 Quotes by Eric Schmidt

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    If I give you a penny, then you’re a penny richer and I’m a penny poorer, but if I give you an idea, then you will have a new idea but I’ll have it too.

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    The nice thing about meetings is that the higher up you are on the food chain, the less you have to prepare for them.

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    The trend has been mobile was winning. It’s now won.

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    Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray used to deliberately hire for inexperience because it brought him people who “do not usually know what’s supposed to be impossible.

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    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.

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    The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that’s really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.

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    Start-ups don’t run on process, they run on ideas, passion, and a common set of goals.

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    You should never be able to reverse engineer a company’s organizational chart from the design of its product.

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    One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It’s simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who’s online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.

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