A biography for Marc Benioffhasn’t been written yet.
“I strongly believe the business of a business is to improve the world.”
“There are a lot of politicians who are just obstructionists.”
“The best way that I can give my best advice is not to be encumbered with any job with any administration.”
“Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.”
“This idea that we can take hundreds of thousands, which we've done so far, and scale it to millions and move them into a new workforce, this is really critical because Salesforce is a platform.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When I get something in my head, it's hard for me to just let it go.”
“You can do things in every part of the world. You can do things in every discipline. You can do large things, you can do small things. But it takes a while to figure out what you actually want to do. And it changes. As you change your interests and desires in philanthropy change, I think you have to be open to that change.”
“In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.”
“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.”
“It's not so unusual for me to have a week of meetings that includes not only my employees, not only my customers, not only media, but could also include principals of local K-12 schools; it could include non-governmental organizations or nonprofit organizations or members of the community.”
“The antidote to inequality is equality. The question is how do you achieve equality? I believe that, for business, which is where I can speak, we have to shift from shareholder maximization to stakeholder maximization.”
“I think a lot of people don't understand how deep AI already is in so many things.”
“We need to make sure we do more job retraining, and that's why we're working to have a 5-million-apprenticeship dream.”
“I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.”
“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.”
“I think everybody understands how important the cloud is.”
“I like to be in locations that I kind of feel are very creative, that stimulate me in a creative process.”
“Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.”