44 Quotes by Shai Agassi

We started our planning by asking our customers what they needed. They needed continuous deployment options and a more strategic CRM...They wanted more than just a sliver of customer information. They wanted a full picture of the customer.

When we do acquisitions, we do it from the edges of the solutions. It's hard to buy half a heart.

We won't do the kind of announcement Siebel has done.

No one has said that we will only stay in that area.

People will take more risk with edge process than core processes.

I don't know what happens 5 or 10 years down the road.

If a company puts in a solution in the market that makes other people fail, then we all fail as a community. This will be a model for enterprise services and how new ideas are proposed, developed and offered into in the market. It's an IP model to protect what you want to protect and one to protect everyone in the community, so you can't come after someone just because you gave them an idea for an enterprise service interface.

Larry is a very smart man. You can quote me on that.

Our goal was to have a same-day deployment model. You sign up in the morning, and you're up and running by the afternoon.