Marc Benioff Quotes
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Some people would argue the other side: that the business of business is business, and companies should only be focused on profits. But in today's world, I don't think corporations can only be focused on profits, because they are inextricably linked with the communities that they serve. I do not believe you can be a leader in your industry without being a leader in your community. It's a fundamental shift in how you think about business.
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This is a fulfillment of our vision of 'The Business Web,' enabling companies of any size to manage, organize and share all of their business information on demand.
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It's a big leap for us. We think it will show the world the next step for on-demand computing, just as we showed the world the first step.
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My summers at Apple had taught me that the secret to encouraging creativity and producing the best possible product was to keep people fulfilled and happy. I wanted the people who built salesforce.com to be inspired and to feel valued.
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What if there was an eBay of enterprise applications? What if there was an iTunes music store of enterprise applications? We call that the AppExchange.
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When I explain our company values and the foundation to prospective employees, they realize that they have an opportunity to do much more than change the way businesses manage and share information. When you take a workforce of smart, creative, dedicated people and say "take this company time to serve your community, and bring along your coworkers, customers, and partners" great things happen.
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I never thought that's what Oracle would be doing today.
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We would be delighted to hear from any Siebel employee that would like to join our company that meets our rigorous standard for excellence and dedication to customer success.
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When I was at Oracle, we watched Computer Associates buy all those mainframe software companies and milk them for their license revenue. I never thought that's what Oracle would be doing one day, and yet, here it is.
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I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.
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You never want to be completely alone at what you do. Competition is good for everyone.
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The only constant in the technology industry is change.
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Mult-Tenancyi is really the future of our industry.
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There are a lot of politicians who are just obstructionists.
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The cloud services companies of all sizes; the cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy.
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Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past.
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We believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so we can transform that into larger market share.
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One problem we discovered, for example, was that our "create a new account" button was in the wrong place...By simply moving it to the left side, mirroring the way people read, we saw a huge improvement in the way people used the site.
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90% of the world's data was created in the last two years.
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I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind.
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Like some of our best ideas, trust.salesforce.com was inspired by our conversations with customers. We have a tradition of leading the on-demand revolution with breakthrough innovations, and we hope that trust.salesforce.com will take its place among some of our best new products.
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One person at a time, one company at a time.
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Don't forget to do something for other people.
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Our customers are not just customizing fields and tabs--they are building their own applications across a wide range of functional areas.