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"The world system is employment."

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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"I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06."

"We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either."

"And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there."

"All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders."

"I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking."

"What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'"

"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."

"Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that."
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