I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.

Choose the right employees and then set them loose.

Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.

All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.

You cannot live without doing something.

The only way you finish with poverty is with jobs.

When we decide to do something, we do it quickly.

Maintain austerity in good times to avoid layoffs in bad times.

All times are good times for those who know how to work.

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

Our main product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

I don't think anyone has done a product that I see customers wanting.

Eventually, the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.

I would love to see all open-source innovations happen on top of Windows.

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company.

We don't have a monopoly, We have a market share, There's a difference.