You cannot innovate by copying.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

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

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.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.

I believe people have to follow their dreams-I did.