Safra A. Catz Quotes

While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.

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

As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.

We're always trying to evolve and find more efficient ways, more fluent ways to evaluate our players, evaluate our opponent and evaluate our prospects.

We believe that our cost effectiveness is one of our most powerful competitive advantages in Networks, and we will not lose sight of that in the future.

In a slower economy, companies look for more value. The cloud provides this. So does Big Data.

You can't make good decisions without knowing the business.

You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company.

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay

The most valuable thing you can have as a leader is clear data.

To be a good analyst, you need to know what the trends are and what teams are doing.

The Facebook way is that you sit at the table and you state your opinion, back it up with data, and make a recommendation.

A company's commitment to searching out potential blockbusters and then investing in marketing to convert potential to reality attracts and retains top scientists and creatives.

Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.

If you want to have the best employees, there really needs to be a vision and a mission. Talent looks for a mission. And if you have the best talent, that's the single biggest competitive advantage any company can have.

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

The Pentagon should use data to guide financial decision-making.

I think the most important thing is not only do you want to build a roster, but you also want to establish a culture within any given organization.

I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures.

I think it's really important to have a long-term perspective.

My mission is to bring the power of big data insights and analytics to every company.

Smart CEOs should be thinking about AI and its impact on their respective business.

For us as a firm, not only from a risk mitigation standpoint but also as a point of differentiation, it is incredibly important to get consistency and the very best individuals with the capabilities to do the very best job.