Eric Schmidt

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

— Eric Schmidt

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

— Eric Schmidt

The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.

— Eric Schmidt

Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.

— Eric Schmidt

“If you focus on your competition, you will never deliver anything truly innovative.”

— Eric Schmidt

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to…

— Eric Schmidt

People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.

— Eric Schmidt

Each country makes a different decision on adult pornography, but the good news is that even governments you hate, hate child pornography.

— Eric Schmidt

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of…

— Eric Schmidt

In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the…

— Eric Schmidt

Google's architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing.…

— Eric Schmidt

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but…

— Eric Schmidt

“It’s also true that many companies get comfortable doing what they have always done, with a few incremental changes. This kind of…

— Eric Schmidt

When companies are growing quickly and they are having a lot of impact, careers take care of themselves… If you’re offered a…

— Eric Schmidt

The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to…

— Eric Schmidt

It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want…

— Eric Schmidt

“Product development has become a faster, more flexible process, where radically better products don’t stand on the shoulders of giants, but on…

— Eric Schmidt

Ultimately, application vendors are driven by volume, and volume is favored by the open approach Google is taking. There are so many…

— Eric Schmidt

Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently…

— Eric Schmidt

Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always…

— Eric Schmidt

“Moore’s Law, the rule of thumb in the technology industry, tells us that processor chips—the small circuit boards that form the backbone…

— Eric Schmidt

We didn't see any statistically significant relationship between our buzz and our short-term sales...Is that the end of the story? I would…

— Eric Schmidt

Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.

— Eric Schmidt

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

— Eric Schmidt

Mobile is the future, and there's no such thing as communication overload.

— Eric Schmidt

We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about;

— Eric Schmidt

I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them…

— Eric Schmidt

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

— Eric Schmidt

The biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon,

— Eric Schmidt

There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.

— Eric Schmidt

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

— Eric Schmidt

“Start-ups don’t run on process, they run on ideas, passion, and a common set of goals.”

— Eric Schmidt

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

— Eric Schmidt

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get…

— Eric Schmidt

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences

— Eric Schmidt

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

— Eric Schmidt

People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.

— Eric Schmidt

If you have a child, you'll notice they have two states: asleep or online.

— Eric Schmidt

“When you have a company of smart creatives, you can tolerate messiness.”

— Eric Schmidt

The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

— Eric Schmidt