Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidtis an American software engineer, a businessperson, and the Executive Chairman of Alphabet, Inc...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth27 April 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.
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If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company or another. Dell is the outlier. Dell built its own culture. They automated themselves to be the most efficient manufacturer.
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Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
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And the more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.
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If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
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We used to think that the enterprise was the hardest customer to satisfy, but we were wrong. It turns out, consumers are harder than the enterprise because the consumer will not give you a second chance.
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We have made commitments to the Chinese government that we absolutely follow Chinese law.
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We're very, very pleased with the performance at every level. We're still very much in the early stages of realizing the long-term vision that we've outlined over the last year. We're tirelessly committed to delivering value to our users and our shareholders.
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We just didn't really have that jump in our step tonight, we were very passive.
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We had another strong record-breaking quarter in terms of both revenues and profits. We're very, very pleased, ... This is traditionally a slow season for Internet properties so this momentum shows that, at least from my perspective, we are effectively connecting with our users and our customers.
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The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.
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We are in the strongest position that we have ever been.
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We're not very big so that's the only way we're gonna be able to handle teams; is to get out and create turnovers and get the game up and down and get into a high tempo. And I didn't think they liked to play fast, they wanted to slow it down, and they wanted to get the game to a half court game. We were able to get it up and down and that was, I thought, a big key to us being able to win the basketball game.
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We are quite profitable. We are not talking about one percent (margins).