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In a meeting, a tablet replaces paper and shows how digital tools dominate daily work. The quotes stress that success comes from strong partnerships and from making an outstanding job that separates you from competitors. They also note that every product will become obsolete, urging constant innovation.

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Make it just like a Mac.

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Change the boundaries of business.

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I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

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You can be a business thinker.

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Eventually, all companies are replaced.

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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

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The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.

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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.

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Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.

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Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

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I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

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It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

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People in business understand paying money to be more efficient. You can bootstrap markets where the devices are too expensive at first…

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The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

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I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.

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A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

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It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally…

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The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both…

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I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they…

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Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

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Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to…

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I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by…

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China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to…

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I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and…

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If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for…

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It's fantastic that Microsoft in the cloud space is one of very few companies that's got the critical mass, the particular emphasis…

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We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the…

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Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it,…

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Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail…

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As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a…

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...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was…

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I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the…

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The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for…

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Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in…

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One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much…

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The digital decade is not just about any particular aspect of computing, taking enterprises, knowledge workers and homes and building standards that…

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Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

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The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening.

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Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.

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Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

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Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting…

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.

Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate…

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all.…

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a…

At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to…

Software is more important than hardware.

Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.