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“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
- Bill Gates, Co-Founder, Retired CEO and Chairman of the Board, Microsoft

“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.”
- Bill Gates, Co-Founder, Retired CEO and Chairman of the Board, Microsoft

“You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.”
- Lou Gerstner, CEO and Chairman of the Board, IBM

“Chapter One (of the Internet) was about e-commerce and e-business. Chapter Two moves us to 'Do it for me'”
- Lou Gerstner, CEO and Chairman of the Board, IBM

“When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.”
- Larry Ellison, Founder, CEO, Oracle

“It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you couldn't make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM said, "Oh yeah, this stuff is good."
- Larry Ellison,Founder , CEO, Oracle

“A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.”
- Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, CEO, Apple Computers

“Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?”
- Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, CEO, Apple Computers

“In the beginning, we did anything to bring in a nickel, ... We had a bowling lane foul line indicator. We had a thing that would make a urinal flush automatically as soon as a guy came in front of it. We had a shock machine to make people lose weight.”
- William Hewlett, Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Hewlett-Packard Company

“Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.“
-David Packard, Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Hewlett-Packard Company

“There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.”
- Michael Dell, Founder, Retired CEO and Chairman of the Board, DELL

“It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.”
- Michael Dell, Founder, Retired CEO and Chairman of the Board, DELL

“I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.”
- Gordon Moore, Co-Founder, Retired CEO and Chairman of the Board, Intel

“With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.”
- Gordon Moore, Co-Founder, Retired CEO and Chairman of the Board, Intel

“I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.“
- Linus Torvalds, Initiator, chief architect of the Linux kernel

“If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won”
- Linus Torvalds, Initiator, chief architect of the Linux kernel

“The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.”
- Larry Page, Co-Founder, Co-President, Google

“Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.”
-Sergey Brin, Co-Founder, Co-President, Google

“I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first.”
- Jerry Yang, Co-Founder and former CEO, Yahoo! Inc

“Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful.”
- David Filo, Co-Founder, Yahoo! Inc