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Eric Schmidt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 27
Art Collector
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Washington
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Eric E. Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt
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Around 400 million people in the last year got a smartphone. If you think that’s a big deal, imagine the impact on that person in the developing world.
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We don't have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you'd find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.
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Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.
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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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Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.
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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.
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There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.
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I think it's pretty clear that the internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are...
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In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.
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Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.
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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.
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We run the company by questions, not by answers.
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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.
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It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.
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I'm able to bring business expertise but, more importantly, operating experience. The people here at Google are young. Every day there are lots of new challenges. I keep things focused. The speech I give everyday is: This is what we do. Is what you are doing consistent with that, and does it change the world?
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Find a way to say “Yes” to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learning a new language, picking up a new sport. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job. Yes is how you find your spouse, and even your kids.
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People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
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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.
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When companies are growing quickly and they are having a lot of impact, careers take care of themselves.... If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.
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Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.
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