Eric Schmidt Quotes

We used to think that the enterprise was the hardest customer to satisfy, but we were wrong. It turns out, consumers are harder than the enterprise because the consumer will not give you a second chance.

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• How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Work
  • Violence
  • Persuasion

• I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• In every movie I do have a dialogue.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Movie
  • Dialogue
  • Every

• Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• I fell through a stage once. I was doing a truly African dance, and all of a sudden, I hit the ground with my foot and went straight through the stage. I guess they didn't have much money, so the floor was kind of rotting.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Money
  • Dance
  • Doing

• You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Love
  • Positive

• I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Women
  • Think
  • Society

• The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Truth Is

• I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Look
  • Will
  • Back

• Class is more important than a game.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Important
  • Game
  • Class

• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Kind
  • Television
  • Week

• Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Live
  • Spiritual

• I put out a call on Twitter and Facebook and email for women to tell me their stories about their abortions. And many women said, 'I told my boyfriend I was pregnant, and that was the last I ever heard of them.'

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Me
  • Said

• In my own mind, it is profoundly disappointing to see what has occurred in Iraq given the sacrifice of our troops, given our commitment to removing Saddam Hussein and putting in place a fledgling government that would have a chance for a stable, secure Iraq.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Mind
  • Government
  • Commitment

• Right now, you've got three days between a trade and a settlement, with hundreds of millions in settlement risk tied up in that time. That all goes away in a blockchain system because you've reunited the trade with the settlement. They're not two separate processes.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• The hottest look for a night out is a deep side part. If that part is not at least three inches in length, then start over. The wider the part, the more open your eyes appear. It is an alluring and seductive look that will keep your date's attention the entire night.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Night
  • Attention
  • Eyes

• He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Fool
  • Others
  • Himself

• Sometimes you walk away from playing somebody and you think, "Wow that was far as from my own experience as I can possibly be." And sometimes you walk away thinking, "Wow. There are qualities in that character that I didn't realize I had." And those can be both interesting and uncomfortable.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Experience

• Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Positive
  • Regret

• Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

  

  Hillary Clinton

• Before, Tiffany sold watches only in its own stores. Now, Tiffany watches are sold in 1,500 stores.

  

  Nelson Peltz

• We used to think that the enterprise was the hardest customer to satisfy, but we were wrong. It turns out, consumers are harder than the enterprise because the consumer will not give you a second chance.

  

  Eric Schmidt