So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business because they have no business of their own to mind any more than a smallpox virus has.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

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.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business because we'd be cynical. Well that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

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

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

You can't operate a company by fear because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.