Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

Accessible design is good design.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

The world is changing, but so is Microsoft.

You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.

And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there.

I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

Make your optimism come true!

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.

God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?