Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.

Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

The way I measure my life is 'Am I better than I was last year?'

You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.

Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.

I marvel every day at how people can excel - and that’s what really gets me going.

If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can't really look at every failure as a failure, you've got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.

As long as you know 'to let' means to rent and not a place to pee, you’re all set to travel in the UK. The lifts and the boots and everything else don’t really matter.

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

A backward glance can often lift the heart.

And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.

I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.

It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I don't think I ever will.