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How Google Works QUOTES

1 " Favoring specialization over intelligence is exactly wrong, especially in high tech. The world is changing so fast across every industry and endeavor that it's a given the role for which you're hiring is going to change. Yesterday's widget will be obsolete tomorrow, and hiring a specialist in such a dynamic environment can backfire. A specialist brings an inherent bias to solving problems that spawns from the very expertise that is his putative advantage, and may be threatened by a new type of solution that requires new expertise. A smart generalist doesn't have bias, so is free to survey the wide range of solutions and gravitate to the best one. "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

2 " If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine. "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

3 " Sheryl Sandberg: “It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.”115 She couldn’t be more right. You will not be as successful as you could be if you only like what you do and don’t love it. Trite, perhaps, but true. Sheryl is also right in saying that combining passion and contribution is a luxury: not that it’s expensive, but just rare. It’s something that many people either can’t figure out (how many people truly know their passion at the outset of their careers?) or can’t afford (you may love whittling garden gnomes, but the world loves engineers and your spouse and children love a regular paycheck). "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

4 " Google dress code was: "You must wear something". "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

5 " Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray used to deliberately hire for inexperience because it brought him people who "do not usually know what's supposed to be impossible. "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

6 " But there is a golden rule to hiring that cannot be violated: the urgency of the role isn't sufficiently important to compromise quality in hiring. In the inevitable showdown between speed and quality, quality must prevail. "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

7 " If everyone is thinking alike, someone is not thinking "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

8 " A-i da clientului ce-şi doreşte contează mai puțin decât a-i da ceea ce încă nu ştie că îşi doreşte. "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

9 " Greatest thing in life is to keep the young mind young "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

10 " If you think your abilities are fixed you will set for yourself what you call "performance goals" to maintain that self image but if you have a growth mindset, you'll set "learning goals" - goals that will drive you to take risks without worrying so much about how you look "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

11 " Innovative people do not need to be told to do it, they need to be allowed to do it. "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

12 " If you focus on your competition, you will never deliver anything truly innovative. "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

13 " Over time I’ve learned, surprisingly, that it’s tremendously hard to get teams to be super ambitious. It turns out most people haven’t been educated in this kind of moonshot thinking. They tend to assume that things are impossible, rather than starting from real-world physics and figuring out what’s actually possible. It’s why we’ve put so much energy into hiring independent thinkers at Google, and setting big goals. Because if you hire the right people and have big enough dreams, you’ll usually get there. And even if you fail, you’ll probably learn something important. It’s also true that many companies get comfortable doing what they have always done, with a few incremental changes. This kind of incrementalism leads to irrelevance over time, especially in technology, because change tends to be revolutionary not evolutionary. So you need to force yourself to place big bets on the future. "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

14 " As Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, says: “In the old world, you devoted 30 percent of your time to building a great service and 70 percent of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts. "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

15 " Make sure you would work for yourself. "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

16 " To innovate, you must learn to fail well. Learn from your mistakes: "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

17 " You need to have confidence in your people, and enough self-confidence to let them identify a better way. "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

18 " If I give you a penny, then you’re a penny richer and I’m a penny poorer, but if I give you an idea, then you will have a new idea but I’ll have it too. "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

19 " You should hire the best engineer you can find, regardless of her coding preference, because if she’s the best she can down enough Java to C how to make the Python Go. "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works

20 " The most valuable result of 20 percent time isn’t the products and features that get created, it’s the things that people learn when they try something new. "

― Eric Schmidt , How Google Works