I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.

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.

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Pregnancy is a natural event, but you lessen the chances conception can occur with an unnatural diet.

I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.

I bought a clock, but the big hand broke off of it... so I just added "ish" to every number.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

It's all mental management. Whether you can do something or not is in your head.

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.