Marc Benioff

Customers want new functionality, but they don’t want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past.

Marc Benioff

I don’t look at business as a zero-sum game. I don’t. I’ve never seen it play out that way in our industry, and I think you innovate and you add value, deliver value back to customers, and you get value back from the world.

Marc Benioff

I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won’t be effective.

Marc Benioff

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you’re really interested in and what you really want to do.

Marc Benioff

If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.

Marc Benioff

If you look at the top 10 enterprise software companies, a lot of them are important but irrelevant companies. It’s really important to be relevant and important.

Marc Benioff

In school all I wanted to do was build technology. That’s what I loved.

Marc Benioff

It’s amazing to consider that no matter what size customer we were pitching, or where in the world we were selling, a singular idea drove all our accomplishments: we never sold features. We sold the model and we sold the customer’s success.

Marc Benioff

Keep in mind that the landscape is always changing; you must always examine what’s working, evolve your ideas, and change the way you do things.

Marc Benioff

Later, as we neared the $1 billion in revenue mark, we didn’t focus on $1 billion in revenue, but what we needed to do to get to $10 billion in revenue.

Marc Benioff