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Marc Benioff
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
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This is what our customers are asking for to take them to the next level and free them from the bondage of mainframe and client-server software.
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Nothing is going to make you happier in your life than giving
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I always tell people: Life is the dance between what you desire most and what you fear most. You've got to be able to deal with the threshold of control.
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The only constant in the technology industry is change.
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Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past.
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Relationships with the media are really important. The media has a more important voice today than it has ever had. We don't advertise. We only have one marketing vehicle, which is editorial, and our ability to get our message out and communicate it effectively.
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You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.
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All this green stuff is great, it's great we don't have plastic bottles or plastic bags and all of that, but how about some great schools?
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Philanthropy isn't just about big gifts it's about participation. It is about the grace that comes from working together.
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Learning to code at a young age opened my eyes to the incredibly exciting world of technology and entrepreneurship. Our youth deserve the opportunity to learn the skills that will enable them to succeed in our connected world.
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Customers get vested in certain paradigms of computing, and those large vendors will try to keep those customers in those paradigms of computing for as long as possible. That's where you basically get the term cash cow.
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Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.
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The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks. Customers are discussing a company's products and brand in real time. Companies need to join the conversation.
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Our focus was directed at developing the best possible and easiest to use product, and this is where we invested our time. Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So, focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.
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Multi-Tenancy is a requirement for a SaaS vendor to be successful
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You need to have a beginner's mind to create bold innovation.
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90% of the world's data was created in the last two years
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I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind
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We believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so we can transform that into larger market share.
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In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.
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