Businessman Quotes

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

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

Stores can be much more successful, when they have more lifestyle products.

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time.

Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!

I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.

Email is the greatest thing.

Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.

I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.

The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we're on our way.

China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand.

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.

What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform.