We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

All you can do is all you can do.

I think about the business all the time. Well I shouldn't say all the time. I don't think about it when I am wakeboarding. But even when I am on vacation, or on my boat; I am on email everyday. I am always prowling around the internet looking at what our competitors are doing.

I am also involved with all the acquisitions and overall strategy. Now it's true, I don't run operations. But I've never really run operations. I've never had the endurance to run sales. The whole idea of selling to the customer just isn't my personality. I'm an engineer, tell me why something isn't working or is and I am curious.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

Think of it as you want it, not as it is!