Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as… — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the internet will… — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
