Eric Schmidt is a successful entrepreneur, technologist, and philanthropist. He led Google’s development from a Silicon Valley company to a global technology leader as its Chief Executive Officer. From 2001 to 2011, he was Google’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, then Executive Chairman from 2011 to 2018, and finally Technical Advisor from 2018 to 2020. Google grew quickly under his leadership and became one of the world’s fastest-growing firms. He then rose to the position of executive chairman of Alphabet Inc.
Here are 18 Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Most Remarkable Quotes
1. “A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don’t do it.” – Eric Schmidt
2. “Every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites.” – Eric Schmidt
3. “The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.” – Eric Schmidt
4. “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” – Eric Schmidt
5. “If you focus on your competition, you will never deliver anything truly innovative.” – Eric Schmidt
6. “Innovative people do not need to be told to do it, they need to be allowed to do it.” – Eric Schmidt
7. “Google dress code was: You must wear something.” – Eric Schmidt
8. “Make sure you would work for yourself.” – Eric Schmidt
9. “Ego creates blind spots.” – Eric Schmidt
10. “You need to have confidence in your people, and enough self-confidence to let them identify a better way.” – Eric Schmidt
11. “To innovate, you must learn to fail well. Learn from your mistakes:” – Eric Schmidt
12. “The most valuable result of 20 percent time isn’t the products and features that get created, it’s the things that people learn when they try something new.” – Eric Schmidt
13. “If I give you a penny, then you’re a penny richer and I’m a penny poorer, but if I give you an idea, then you will have a new idea but I’ll have it too.” – Eric Schmidt
14. “Don’t tell me, show me.” – Eric Schmidt
15. “It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.” – Eric Schmidt
16. “It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.” – Eric Schmidt
17. “The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.” – Eric Schmidt
18. “If the past is any indicator of our future, today’s big bets won’t seem so wild in a few years’ time.” – Eric Schmidt