Quotes from Marc Benioff

Businesses cannot be extricated or disintermediated from the communities they serve. Businesses who do that will do that at their own peril. They will draw fire. And companies who are integrated will be lauded by their communities and not draw fire.

The best way that I can give my best advice is not to be encumbered with any job with any administration.

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

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.

Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world.

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?

The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks. Customers are discussing a company's products and brand in real time. Companies need to join the conversation.

I couldn't imagine a more incompetent politician than myself.

There are a lot of politicians who are just obstructionists.

Technology is a continuum. It's constantly getting lower-cost and easier to use, and you see that, and that's true with our company.

What part of media doesn't need to connect with their customers more smartly?

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

My approach to politics is that I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I'm an American and I always support candidates I think are great for the country.

When I look at the next set of technologies that we have to build in Salesforce, it's all data-science-based technology. We don't need more cloud. We don't need more mobile. We don't need more social. We need more data science.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

Technology's always taken jobs out of the system, and what you hope is that technology's going to put those jobs back in, too. That's what we call productivity.

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.

Life grows relative to one's investment in it.

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.

The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.

The real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Nothing will make you happier than giving.

Nothing is more important, certainly during these times of artificial intelligence, than our public education. And as it continues to grow and evolve, I think you and I know this is going to be critical that we are constantly training and retraining and creating these next-generation jobs.

The bigger and more successful Salesforce becomes, the more we'll invest in our public schools, the more we will invest in homeless, the more we will invest in public hospitals, the more we will invest into NGOs.

Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.