Business Quotes
"Here are some additional quotes by Eric Schmidt:"
"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do"
"The goal of a startup is not to stay a startup. Being a startup is a means to an end"
"What we do in our group is a mix of creativity, craftsmanship, and business. The three go together"
"In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for the long term and not be too impatient"
"At Uber, we say, 'Always be hustling.' Even if you are an introvert and you haven't got hustle in you, you better get a co-founder who does"
"If you bring that scrappy fierceness with you, it works until you get big, when really pushing all the way really feels uncomfortable... When you're the little guy, that's lauded, that's heroic"
"What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it"
"The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy"
"The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world"
"The company without a strategy is willing to try anything"
"If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach"
"The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work"
"Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is. "
"The best startups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults"
"All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition"
"Every moment in business happens only once"
"All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people"
"We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference"
"No one ever made a dime by panicking."