Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realiti…

- Robert Metcalfe

My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been…

- Robert Metcalfe

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

- Robert Metcalfe

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

- Robert Metcalfe

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possibl…

- Robert Metcalfe

I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.

- Robert Metcalfe

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

- Robert Metcalfe

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

- Robert Metcalfe

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

- Robert Metcalfe