We run the company by questions, not by answers. Eric Schmidt More Quotes by Eric Schmidt More Quotes From Eric Schmidt Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change. Eric Schmidt advantagetechnologyimprovement We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV. Eric Schmidt tvscolorbusiness The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media. Eric Schmidt ebaymediapeople The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like. Eric Schmidt informationpeopleworld There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime. Eric Schmidt recyclingtechnologyneeds When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant. Eric Schmidt googleusegiving To me, what you want to do is find a way to let this play out between the virtual world and the physical world...Ultimately, I think society will get there. It will be messy, but we'll get there. Eric Schmidt accountabilityplaythinking People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them. Eric Schmidt missingpeoplethinking The lack of a delete button on the internet is a significant issue. Eric Schmidt buttonsissuesinternet The funny thing about advertising is that it's not a zero-sum game... Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it's possible for everyone to win, and it's perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time. Eric Schmidt funny-thingszerowinning I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places. Eric Schmidt optimisticchildrenpeople It's a mistake to predict the size of markets that are so new. This model has shown no signs of slowing down. So we are going to get as much of it as we possibly can, and when we get close to that we'll figure out other problems. Eric Schmidt sizegrowthmistake Search companies, which I won't mention by name, tried to do so many things at the same time, they forgot all about search. They either missed the next revolution of search or they created an opening for a Google to enter. Eric Schmidt googlefocusnames It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources. Eric Schmidt informationfundamentalspeople 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. Eric Schmidt connectionslossnegative People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots. Eric Schmidt awfulpeoplethinking It's a bug that cars were invented before computers. Eric Schmidt bugscomputercar The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information. Eric Schmidt datainformationway People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. Eric Schmidt videocommunitypeople There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them. Eric Schmidt evil-peopleleadershipamerica
