Quotes by inspiring leaders have the power to highly motivate us. One such group of leaders is tech leaders, who play an important role in organizations worldwide and continue to innovate and bring new technology to make our lives easier. In this blog, we have compiled quotes from tech leaders who lead some of the biggest organizations in the technology world.
Quotes on Technology
Here are the 21 quotes from tech leaders that you need to hear!
“Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.”
- Steve Jobs- Former CEO of Apple
“For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone around the world.”
- Sundar Pichai- CEO of Google
“Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What’s happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don’t know how to write.”
- Susan Wojcicki- Former CEO of YouTube
“We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren’t that many things people use twice a day.”
- Larry Page- Co-founder Google
“The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.”
- Bill Gates- Co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft
“Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.”
- Reed Hastings- Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Netflix
“Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it’s just a job, and life is too short for that.”
- Tim Cook- CEO of Apple
“Do you feel good in your role? If yes, that’s the perfect time for you to experiment with something new, to get out of your comfort zone”
- Pierre Nanterme- Former Chairman and CEO of Accenture
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
- Mark Zuckerberg- CEO of Facebook
“Growth and comfort do not coexist.”
- Ginni Rometty- Former CEO of IBM
“Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation.”
- Satya Nadella- CEO of Microsoft
“Computers are reliably unreliable. Humans are consistently inconsistent. The more machines act like humans, the more we expect them to behave (and feel) like us.”
- Tim Campos, Founder of Woven, Vice President at Apple
“One way to understand human progress is to look at how technology has made products and services – once reserved for the elite – progressively more accessible and affordable.”
- Dan Schulman- CEO of PayPal
“You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.”
- Michael Dell- Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies
“You can’t have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.”
- Marissa Mayer- President and CEO of Yahoo!
“Learning the basics of being a digital citizen is a critical skill for all children in the 21st century.”
- Hadi Partovi- CEO at Code.org
“That confluence of cool tech and enormous opportunity to use that tech to change the world is leading to the emergence of cloud computing.”
- Scott Guthrie- Executive Vice President of the Cloud and AI group in Microsoft
“The problem is that at a lot of big companies, the 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.”
- Elon Musk- CEO of Tesla Motors
“You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology – it’s not only a great tool for democratization, but it’s a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies”
- Carly Fiorina- Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
“If you don’t innovate fast, disrupt your industry, disrupt yourself, you’ll be left behind.”
- John Chambers- Former CEO of Cisco System
“Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen.”
- Jack Ma- Co-founder of Alibaba Group
Conclusion
These quotes from tech leaders reflect their visionary mindset which has inspired the world. We hope the profound wisdom contained in these tech quotes ignited motivation in you!
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