I Think Good Ideas Are Usually Better

You Can Have An Apple In The Phone Business, Or A Rim, And They Can Do Very Well, But When 1.3 Billion Phones A Year Are All Smart, The Software That's Gonna Be Most Popular In Those Phones Is Gonna Be Software That's Sold By Somebody Who Doesn't Make Their Own Phones.

I Meet With Satya [nadella] What Probably Amounts To Four Or Five Times A Year - Either To Brainstorm Something Or Just As A Shareholder, We'll Sit Down And Chat. That's Always Quite Helpful For Me And Hopefully Him In Terms Of Thinking Things Through. I Still Have A Number Of Friends And Colleagues Who Occasionally Want To Brainstorm Or Chat About Something, And That's Always Fun.

It Actually Turns Out To Be Much Harder To Really Understand Government Across State Local And Federal.

I Don't Have A Lot Of Experience Running Basketball Teams.i'm Just Trying To Get Smart Enough Even To Understand Everything Going On. As Much Of A Fan As I Am, I Haven't Played The Game Since Ninth-grade. If You Told Me When I Bought The Team That There Were 12 Kinds Of Pick And Rolls, I Would've Told You I Have No Frickin' Clue About That.

I'm Very, Very Bullish About Our Prospects, And As I Tell Our Board, As I Tell Our Employees, This Is The Time To Invest. There's So Much Opportunity. Let's Just Invest In That Opportunity, And Really Get After It.