Marc Benioff Quotes

Every company today is a data company whether they realize it or not.

Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

'Data scientist,' as a profession, is largely a fad.

There's been the emergence of a philosophy that big data is all you need. We would suggest that, actually, numbers don't speak for themselves.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Data really powers everything that we do.

Every part of your business will change based on what I consider predictive analytics of the future.

Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.

If somebody's going on your board, and you're going to be C.E.O., it will help if that person knows how to be C.E.O., who has done it before.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data,' has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.

The answers to today's most important scientific, business, and social problems lie in data.

In large companies, the CEO is very distant from operations.

We're guided by consumer data, and it helps give us the confidence to invest where the consumer is going.

As we've got more data, and ClassPass has grown, we've had to change rather than have a one-size fits all approach.

I know plenty of entrepreneurs who are numbers first. They tend to be highly analytical people, and before they pull the trigger, all the numbers have to line up just right.

You need the right balance between data and gut feeling.

Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

We know now data is so powerful, and you can learn so much about yourself and creating product with data.

Imgur is a data-driven company, and our community is our most important signal. But you can't perfectly plot humans neatly into a chart. It takes someone with instincts and empathy to truly understand the community and represent them in all of the company decisions.

Our ubiquitous mobile access has made time and location important data points in how businesses can now be built and managed.

I've decided to study the MBA, as it's crucial to have comprehensive knowledge of business administration and management in running science technology institutes as well as making science-related policies.