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If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company or another. Dell is the outlier. Dell built its own culture. They automated themselves to be the most efficient manufacturer.

~Eric Schmidt

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Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.

~Eric Schmidt

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I think to some degree one of the strengths of the high tech industry is that people are actually willing to tell you things. When I went to Novell, I didn't know how to be a CEO, so I went in and I called all sorts of CEOs I knew. I called in a favor. I wanted to come by and listen to them tell me what it's like to be a CEO.

~Eric Schmidt

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When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.

~Eric Schmidt

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Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.

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I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there are many other things you can do than search... I think of Google as an advertising company who services the broader advertising industry in the ways that you know.

~Eric Schmidt

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The funny thing about advertising is that it's not a zero-sum game... Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it's possible for everyone to win, and it's perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time.

~Eric Schmidt

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The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

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Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

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People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.

~Eric Schmidt

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: April 27th, 1955

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