Marc Benioff

Seize the opportunity in front of you. Imagine. Invent. Disrupt. Do good. I know that you must be passionate, unreasonable, and a little bit crazy to follow your own ideas and do things differently. But it’s worth it. Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.

Marc Benioff

There is a Japanese belief that business is temporal, whereas relationships are eternal.

Marc Benioff

There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.

Marc Benioff

You have chosen the wrong path if it’s not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it’s not hard and rocky sometimes.

Marc Benioff

You need to get to the future, ahead of your customers, and be ready to greet them when they arrive.

Marc Benioff

You never want to be completely alone at what you do. Competition is good for everyone.

Marc Benioff

90% of the world’s data was created in the last two years.

Marc Benioff

Although I loved working on technology – I’ve always been a computer geek at heart – my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.

Marc Benioff

Because the guerilla tactic of directly leveraging the activities of our competition worked so well, we repeated it and made it one of our marketing strategies.

Marc Benioff

Customers get vested in certain paradigms of computing, and those large vendors will try to keep those customers in those paradigms of computing for as long as possible. That’s where you basically get the term cash cow.

Marc Benioff