Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.
Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.
If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.
If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)