Marc Benioff Quotes

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

To endeavor to rehabilitate the sabbath of our forefathers is as foolish as to try to make people go back into log houses and cook in a fire-place. Some persons can never realize that the world grows; that what was a help to one age becomes a hindrance to another; that time corrects the mistakes of men and that respect and reverence for our ancestors does not necessarily require us to adopt their clothes or their habits.

The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.

Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated.

The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.

Any year that you don't destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year

When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

You can't play the same game every day for years. New games are key.

The world keeps moving, the world keeps turning, and people get older, and young people become older and more important and cooler and interesting, and actually staying the same becomes a liability, especially in the advertising industry.

As long as there are still interesting stories and still interesting people that we want to meet, I can keep it going. But, we all have to be invested. If the room starts getting bored or I start getting restless, then we'll either have to change something in the show or maybe end it.

The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.

People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

We can't afford to stand pat while the world races by. The United States of America did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth by sheer luck or happenstance. We got here because each time a generation of Americans has faced a changing world, we have changed with it. We have not feared our future; we have shaped it.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

For students to understand what the future of journalism is going to be, they're going to have to invent it. It's a big idea. We don't know what journalism is going to look like in the next three years, let alone the next 10 years.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the source, and then trying to make your own film, and trying not to be inhibited by being so beholden to every single thing... We respect the source, but we make changes to it.