Latest Marc Benioff Quotes from Interviews

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• I always tell people: Life is the dance between what you desire most and what you fear most. You've got to be able to deal with the threshold of control.

  Marc Benioff

  People, Desire

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• Business requires an unbelievable level of resilience inside you, the chokehold on the growth of your business is always the leader, it's always your psychology and your skills - 80% psychology, 20% skills. If you don't have the marketing skills, if you don't have the financial-intelligence skills, if you don't have the recruiting skills, it's really hard for you to lead somebody else if you don't have fundamentally those skills. And so my life is about teaching those skills and helping people change the psychology so that they live out of what's possible, instead of out of their fear.

  Marc Benioff

  Teaching, People, Leader

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I know Donald Trump quite well. We've never shared values, he and I. But I respected his ability to turn it around. So I respect somebody who can turn things around and be successful. I think the president's communication style is the most difficult thing because he actually does care, people who know him know he cares. But his style of communication, his combative approach, the elements of ego that are obviously there in all of us but seem to be more easy to see in the president sometimes than other people, get in the way of his capacity to lead, unfortunately.

  Marc Benioff

  Communication, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I've worked with a variety of presidents over the years on both sides of the aisle and congressmen and senators, so I'm not into trying to demonize anybody. It used to be that people would fight like hell on the floor of the house and they'd go have a beer together. Now it's like you're radioactive if you talk to the other side, which keeps us from getting anything done. I'm an independent personally, and I vote for who I believe will make the biggest difference.

  Marc Benioff

  Believe, Independent, Fighting

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I had one goal. I wanted people to really learn the tools that could change, because I taught finance for years, I network with people in their 20s, obviously, and all ages I've worked with. But I wanted to just take that to another level, and I also, quite frankly, was just angry. I was angry about the level of abuse I saw in 2008 that happened to people. I knew what happened, I had made a fortune during that time because when things melt down - and they're going to again; life is cyclical - it's one of the greatest opportunities in your life.

  Marc Benioff

  Opportunity, People, Goal

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• All this green stuff is great, it's great we don't have plastic bottles or plastic bags and all of that, but how about some great schools?

  Marc Benioff

  School, Bags, Bottles

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• I just cannot understand why we can't have better schools. That private schools are the only option for the kind of high-net-worth crowd, I think, is ridiculous. It should be a major initiative. It should be something we're all working on. We have to get our head out of the clouds.

  Marc Benioff

  School, Thinking, Clouds

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• You don't want to be the only car company. When you're the only car company and there's no competition, customers may not know what a car is, the roads may not be developed for cars, there may not be gas stations everywhere.

  Marc Benioff

  Car, Competition, Gas Stations

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• 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

  Long, Trying, Cows

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• Staying relevant is key. When you're telling your story, you better have a modern story to tell. If I was still saying the same story I was saying 10 years ago, it would not be that interesting.

  Marc Benioff

  Keys, Years, Interesting

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• 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

  Important, Top 10, Looks

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• When I look out from my own business career, I tried to learn from some of the best people, regardless of the industry.

  Marc Benioff

  Careers, People, Looks

  Source: www.sfgate.com