Eric Schmidt

“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”

“If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.”

“Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.”

“We run the company by questions, not by answers.”

“The characteristic of a really great disruptive innovation is that it is crazily better. Not 10 percent better, but 10 times better.”

“Your brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room.”

“Find a way to say yes to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meeting new friends, say yes to learning a new language, making a new dish. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids.”

“The story of technology is in fact the story of humanity.”

“When you are dealing with technology, it is not a question of if, it is a question of when it is going to fail.”

“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have... It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.”

“It’s amazing to me that we live in a country where we are so dominated by a single media story. The fairness doctrine is not going to be the solution to that.”

“The best advice I could give is to get a mentor and when you get a mentor, you should listen to the mentor.”

“From the business point of view, we are not a search company. We are an advertising company.”

“Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

“Mobile is a behavior, not a channel.”