A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.

I'm not a macroeconomics person.

It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense.

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.