Marc Benioff Quotes

If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'

The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.

When I think about developing solutions, I think about how we can use technology to make a difference.

I remember when AOL was small and they were growing like mad. Consumers were coming on in droves because they made it easy to connect to the Internet. That was the single biggest innovation of AOL; when grandmas were signing up, AOL had arrived.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

The speed at which technology evolves affects everyone; we repeatedly hear that constant innovation is overwhelming for consumers, who struggle to keep pace.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

I've had the opportunity to experience firsthand how tech companies can help people in their daily lives.

In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

My view is we should be doing everything we can to come up with ways of exploiting the current technology effectively.

What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress. Instead, I try to run faster. If Amazon knows you better than you know yourself, then the game is up.

There will be no cost drag from digital by 2020.

I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.

Digital companies can reach new customers immediately and at virtually zero marginal cost. They can compete in new sectors by collaborating with peers and competitors. They can massively improve quality and productivity by converging technologies and sources of data.

The Internet won't skip a beat, and neither will I. Technology is constantly changing and evolving.

I believe there are a lot of inefficiencies in the way technical innovation happens.

Computerization eliminates the middleman

Always, in your career and personal life, be evolving with technology.

Technology for me is discover, learn, evolve and implement. It combines 3Ss- speed, simplicity and service. Technology is fast, technology is simple and technology is a brilliant way to serve people. It is also a great teacher. The more we learn about technology and the more we learn through technology, the better it is.

The investments and costs you have to put into digitalising means there will be an incentive for companies to merge.