Phil Schiller Quotes

The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive.

Successful companies hire people.

I have started or run several companies and spent time with dozens of entrepreneurs over the years. Virtually none of them, in my experience, made meaningful personnel or resource-allocation decisions based on incentives or policies.

Steve Jobs knows how to hold his hand out, to build beautiful products and make people pay for them.

A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.

If I look to any company as a model, it's Apple. They're a brilliant design company working to create a lifestyle.

It's been invigorating being back on the West Coast, being at Alphabet, because there is so much innovation. And the big challenge is, how do you think about resource allocation and priorities when you have so many great options? But wearing jeans instead of suits and popping into driverless cars has also been a lot of fun.

Steve Jobs didn't seek solace among minimum wage workers. He sought it from highly educated men and women who understood and shared his focus on growth, technology, and company-building.

When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft.

I think the Indian AI ecosystem is growing rapidly. A lot of Indian entrepreneurs reach out to me seeking feedback about startups and products. And some of them have very interesting business ideas.

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.

That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.

I want the best people, not just on the banking side but on innovation and technology.

Fix a few things here, improve a few things there, launch a new feature every so often. That's coasting. And I don't want Basecamp to coast.

If we can provide a benefit and make money, it's a chance for us to expand the population of customers we serve, expand the products we put in the marketplace, and reinvent ourselves going forward.

As a professional services company, our people ultimately make the difference in delivering high-quality services to clients. This is why we are so focused on attracting the best people and investing to further develop their skills.

The people who are changing our world are starting from an idea and bringing it all the way through to finished product with the power of their intellect, training, tools and available products.

It's important for founders to think about how they would build their company from scratch - again.

I am excited to be working with the dedicated Four Seasons board and leadership team to build upon their reputation for industry-leading customer experiences while seeking out innovative ways to leverage technology that will help spur additional growth.

Running businesses of all sizes and stages, I've seen the challenges companies face in trying to identify, attract, and retain talent.

Twitter can afford to build the wrong things. However, Twitter cannot afford to build the right things too slowly.

Digital innovations have the potential to transform the recruitment industry, and the Adecco Group is taking the lead.

With Facebook's IPO, the world learned a new way of organizing businesses around one overriding imperative: to ship new products quickly.

You need to run the company on an even keel, and you need to be thinking about the company long-term and how to drive your next innovation.