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"LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission."
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"I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything."
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Personal Development
"We prefer to be around others who bring out the best in us and make us feel good, don't we? Customers want to do business with people who make them feel valued, appreciated, and happy."
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Personal Development
"You want to build a big business? Start with your character."
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Personal Development
"If you can't fire your best friend or your brother, don't hire them."
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Personal Development
"Project your "brand to be remarkable and memorable. Whether through a positioning statement, product placement, advertising campaign, service, a logo, mission, or message, your brand is what makes you and/or your company remarkable-or not."
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Personal Development
"They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons!"
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Personal Development
"If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor."
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Personal Development
"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"
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Personal Development
"I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good."
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Personal Development
"A tech-savvy Board sets a right tone for shaping the culture of innovation."
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"Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience."
Learning
"We had the Windows app store in Windows 8, but one of the big changes in the design of Windows 10 is to make sure that the app store is front and center where our usage is, which is the desktop."
Technology
"Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves."
Business
"I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact."
Success
"You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete."
Technology
"One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity."
Leadership
"India for sure is a mobile-first country. But I don't think it will be a mobile-only country for all time. An emerging market will have more computing in their lives, not less computing, as there is more GDP and there is more need. As they grow, they will also want computers that grow from their phone."
Reflection
"With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time."
Technology
"If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and downs of life."
Wisdom
"I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop."
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