Advice Quote by Robert Metcalfe

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

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

— Robert Metcalfe

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

— Robert Metcalfe

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

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

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

— Robert Metcalfe

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

— Robert Metcalfe

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

— Robert Metcalfe

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

— Robert Metcalfe

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

— Robert Metcalfe

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

In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

— Robert Metcalfe