We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
It is fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
If you can not make it good, at least make it look good.
Yadi Aap Accha Bana Nahi Sakte TO Kam Se Kam Aisa Kariye Ki Woh Accha Dikhe
Safalata Ki Khusi Manane Se Accha Hai Par Usse Jaruri Hai Apni Asfalta Se Sikh Lena
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now.
They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were.
So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room
Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world...if you do so, you are insulting yourself
The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about
what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past
The world won't care about your self-esteem.
Every day were saying, ‘How can we keep this customer happy?’ How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don’t, somebody else will.”
It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not.”
Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want that on my business card.” – Bill Gates
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world,
because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid,
And I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
I've been struck by the role that technology plays and especially that the Internet played during this crisis. On September 11th hundreds of millions of people relied on the Internet to get news and to communicate with loved ones.
This is clearly the most massive attempt at government regulation of the technology industry ever.
I'm in the same traffic as everybody else. I'm in the same airplane delay as everybody else. I sit in the same coach seat as everybody else.
Now the growth in the last year in Europe was very rapid and so you can say the gap is closing a bit. But I think it's still an issue of great concern. A lot of kids graduate from college in Europe without having the in-depth exposure that most U.S. students receive. So there's work to be done.
Our services have started out as very inexpensive but not feature-rich, ... Our servers are very feature-rich. So as we bring these things together, we give you the richness and also the choice of having it as server or as a service.
These proposals will have a chilling effect on innovation in the high technology industry, ... Microsoft could never have developed Windows under these rules. Looking forward, this kind of regulation would make it impossible for Microsoft to develop the next generation of great software.
Our vision of what's important is exactly the same today, bringing together the best systems and the best software to empower people with rich information solutions.
Tasks that we thought in the past as impossible will now be rather simple, ... We are going to lead the way in XML advances.
Very soon, having four gigabytes of memory will be quite common, ... Improving something by a power of a million is quite dramatic...We simply don\'t find that kind of improvement anywhere else in the world.
I started to play golf about five years ago. It was humbling. I really like it but it's so frustrating
The business achievements of Microsoft in Israel are excellent and the company is currently working to massively expand its research and development budgets worldwide,
The ability to innovate Windows, the ability to maintain the integrity of Windows as a fully designed product -- those are important to us, ... As long as we can keep those intact, it would be great to settle the thing.
The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk ... and with a tiny little screen.
We also had the tragic events of September 11th, and I know for everyone that's caused us to step back, think about our priorities. It's a tragedy that affects us personally and affects our businesses. For the computer industry in particular, I think it highlights the importance of security, giving that far more importance than we've had in the past. We don't want our digital systems to have weaknesses that allow for tragedies, exploiting the weaknesses that are there. And so there's a renewed sense of focus on that.
The Times Reader is a powerful example of how companies can use software to forge new types of customer connections that span beyond the browser to the desktop and mobile devices. The New York Times is setting a standard not only for media organizations, but for all companies looking for new ways to interact with consumers through software.