Bill Gates Quotes

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

You've got to stay super focused on shipping product. There isn't a version two or three if there isn't a great version one.

That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

The brand new user interfaces that Nintendo invented often faced skeptical views before a hardware launch but wound up becoming de facto industry standards.

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.

You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.

It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That's what we get paid to do.

Stop sketching. Start building.

Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

The world doesn't need another Dell or Compaq.

We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine that funds all our innovation. But over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.

I would say the more the better when it is comes to development and marketing. It's actually fun. For some it can be a frustrating thing.

I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.

Stillness alone is the potentiality for creativity; movement alone is creativity restricted to a certain aspect of its expression. But the combination of movement and stillness enables you to unleash your creativity in all directions-wherever the power of your attention takes you.

Does the customer invent new product or service? The customer generates nothing. No customer asked for electric lights. There was gas and gas mantles, which gave good light.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.