You Cannot Innovate By Copying.

It's Fascinating As We Continue To Innovate And Lead The Way In Both The Application Space And The Database Space. In The Very Beginning, People Said You Couldn't Make Relational Databases Fast Enough To Be Commercially Viable. I Thought We Could, And We Were The First To Do It. But We Took Tremendous Abuse Until Ibm Said, "oh Yeah, This Stuff Is Good."

Act Confident, Even When You're Not.

The Things That Caused Problems For Me In School Are The Same Things That Help Me Succeed In The World.

Microsoft Is Already The Most Powerful Company On Earth But You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.

In Order To Grow At This Pace, There Will Have To Be A Couple Of Acquisitions Along The Way. The Tricky Thing Is To Grow At This Rate And Maintain A 40 Percent Operating Margin.