The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.