Talent Quotes

"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas."

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.

"The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom"

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

I think we knew that this would be just like raising the kids together, this would be a fun thing to do in partnership. And you know, we're so lucky because we get to hire in very smart people. We... ...

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."