Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.
No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.
I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
When Warren Buffett invests in a company, he is conferring upon that company something very unique: his credibility.
What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.
People who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and in our world have always inspired me.
I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.
If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.
The millionaires and billionaires who chose to invest in Australia are actually those who most help the poor and our young. This secret needs to be spread widely.
The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.
No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.
When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention.
I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.
The key to making acquisitions is being ready because you really never know when the right big one is going to come along.
I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.
I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America.
The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.
