business Quotes

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

This antitrust thing will blow over.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".

If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent... ...

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too... ...

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.

Hey, size works against excellence.