Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidtis an American software engineer, a businessperson, and the Executive Chairman of Alphabet, Inc...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth27 April 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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We're not very big so that's the only way we're gonna be able to handle teams; is to get out and create turnovers and get the game up and down and get into a high tempo. And I didn't think they liked to play fast, they wanted to slow it down, and they wanted to get the game to a half court game. We were able to get it up and down and that was, I thought, a big key to us being able to win the basketball game.
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We are quite profitable. We are not talking about one percent (margins).
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We had another strong record-breaking quarter in terms of both revenues and profits. We're very, very pleased, ... This is traditionally a slow season for Internet properties so this momentum shows that, at least from my perspective, we are effectively connecting with our users and our customers.
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The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.
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We played well in the first half and had a chance to bury them when we went up by 18 at one time.
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We basically have good news across the board -- across the whole business.
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We have made commitments to the Chinese government that we absolutely follow Chinese law.
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Our strategy is clearly working. Initial customer response to NetWare 5 and new Novell partnerships demonstrate that the market increasingly recognizes that directory is vital to managing information resources in an Internet world,
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Although we met our total revenue and earnings objectives for the third quarter, we are nonetheless disappointed by continued weakness of packaged software sales globally, and especially our poor performance in Europe, ... The quarter was impacted by difficult changes intended to improve Novell's business.
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Although this is typically a slower season for Internet properties, we had another exceptional quarter, ... Our focus on end users and on quality of information and advertising worldwide continues to work extremely well. We are very pleased with how well this is working at scale.
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There is very large capital spending associated with data centers. We move very large amounts of information.
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Bagley did a good job of controlling the ball and slowing the game down for the first five minutes. They played a defense that we haven't seen yet this year and it took some time for us to get organized.
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You can't know what we are really up to until you are in the bowels of the company,
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There wasn't a lot we could do. We didn't have any answers for what they were doing.