Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft."
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Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company."
Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"Wesco had a market capitalization of $40 million when we bought it [in the early 1970s]. It's $2 billion now. It's been a long slog to a perfectly respectable outcome - not as good as Berkshire Hathaway or Microsoft, but there's always someone in life who's done better."
Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in."
Jack Ma
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
"If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life."
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"Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better."
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"Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth.""
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"A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts."
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"I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success — I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products."
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"I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less."
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"Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination."
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"The Internet? We are not interested in it"
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"Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company"
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"There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing."
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"When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity."
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"It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over."
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"If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation."
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"How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?"
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"We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)"
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"(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong."
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"I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested."
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"Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free"
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"The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk."
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"[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work."
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"Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet."
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