Eric Schmidt Quotes

If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

You know, you can go to the fiftieth thing on a Google list and that's the one you want, but the ones you are going to be directed to are the funders.

If you want to be an athlete, there's no way around it: You have to go to the gym. You can't Google your way to it.

Utility is a metaphysical concept of impregnable circularity; utility is the quality in commodities that makes individuals want to buy them, and the fact that individuals want to buy commodities shows that they have utility.

First of all, if you're setting up a new company, you want to try to find a brand that can work on a global basis.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

Everyones always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, Probably never.

I like everything with a heaping dose of feminitity, including my cell phone. I created this phone for the classic woman, who like me, loves diamonds & wants a wireless.

It had always made sense to me to build a business based on what people really wanted, rather than guess what we thought they might want.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

Every time [Chris Bryant] asks a question I become more and more baffled why anyone would want to hack his phone and listen to his messages

The #1 business opportunity for those who want to create new wealth is educating consumers about products and services that will improve their lives.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

It's so hard, because everyone's got a camera-phone, and everyone wants to get their picture on the blogs. So they'll send anything that they have to the blogs. So you don't really get any privacy.

I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want.

Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.

It isn't the consumers' job to know what they want.

You can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English.

To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want.

I kind of like to look at the ranch on Google, reminds me of where I want to be sometimes.

I am free to make anything I want as long as I think it will sell.

I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?