Microsoft Money Quotes

#1. Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.

Aaron Patzer

#2. The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.

Bill Gates

#3. Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever ... unless they get a new CEO who isn't crazy about pouring billions into a hole.

Marco Arment

#4. It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.

Craig Ferguson

#5. I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?

Steve Jobs

#6. Well, that's the important thing, isn't it, Mma? To feel happiness, and then to remember it.

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. The personal freedom to think & feel & speak authentically & to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

Rollo May

#8. There is more to writing a book than just writing a book.

John Morris Benson

#9. There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.' Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it's embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one.

Michael J. Saylor

#10. There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

Victoria Moran

#11. IBM has research and development; so do Microsoft and Nike and even Jose Andres. But there hasn't been enough R&D on feeding people in the Third World. This has to be part of the process; if not, we'll keep throwing money at the problem instead of investing in true solutions.

Jose Andres

#12. Maybe you have been looking for peace for no one but yourself.

Building 429

#13. There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words "innovative" and "successful." Microsoft products are successful - they make a lot of money - but that doesn't make them innovative, or even particularly good.

Robert X. Cringely

#14. Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search ... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.

David Filo