3 Bill Gates Quotes on Strategy

Bill Gates quotes on strategy

19. Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, 'I don't know how to spell that.' I said, 'Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay.' But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.

32. One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.

53. There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.