People Quotes

Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell.

I mean, my mind is a storm, and I don't think most people would want to be me. They may think they would want to be me, but they don't.

I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

The reality is great highs, terrible lows and unrelenting stress. Don't think people want to hear about the last two.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

You can make an internet company with 10 people and it can have billions of users. It doesn't take much capital and it makes a lot of money - a really, really lot of money - so it's natural for everyone to focus on those kinds of things.

Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges.

It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.

The amazing thing is that we're part of people's daily lives, like brushing their teeth. It's just something they do throughout the day while working, buying things, deciding what to do after work and much more. Google has been accepted as part of people's lives.

Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand.

Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.