Marc Benioff Quotes

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I've spent so much time with my dad traveling and seeing the ground-level change that we've been able to make through philanthropy and trip over trip, time over time, country over country, home after home we've been invited into, given tea, given food that people didn't have to give us, I mean all of these things.

Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

I'm of the belief that you pursue your interests, you pull it all in, and you sort it out later.

As I change and grow, different things excite me and I just follow where that leads me.

I continually reinvent myself. It keeps things interesting.

Keeping your lives as varied as possible is a good thing.

I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.

I think the most important thing is authenticity, just being as real as I can be. But also flexible and open to change and other ideas and thought processes. Back when you and I last talked, I was at a turning point in my life, and I was having a tough time. I was hiding it, but I had a really hard time just being me. So now it's important that I'm just me.

Never say never! I'm open to trying new things.

I know where I'm going to be, I'm not traveling here and there and everywhere. That didn't necessarily prompt me to it but it definitely opened up my mind of saying okay, maybe this is a good time to do this.

I never really excelled in any particular subject, but I was just alright at all of them. I never really knew what I wanted to do until I discovered drama.

I might not agree with myself in a year.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.

That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.

I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

I used to be very rigid because I just wanted to get through it. Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease.

I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.