The 2016 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference attracted 16,000 attendees from 144 countries over 3 days (July 10-14) in Toronto, Canada. Drinking thousands of beers (and tweeting even more) we knew there would be some great quotes to share. We pulled together 16 of our favorites. Which do you like best?
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“Microsoft has always been a partner-led company and will always be a partner-led company.”
– Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO [@satyanadella] -
“You want to know the reason we chose Office 365? It's because of Microsoft. Microsoft got cool again.”
– Tim Campos, Facebook’s CIO [read more] -
“Here is the lesson you need to learn: The concept is way more important than the details.”
– James Whittaker, Storyteller [@docjamesw] -
“Helping the channel transform and become cloud-first, recurring revenue first and creating managed services will be the key to digital transformation and driving cloud adoption.”
– Rocco Seyboth, BitTitan [read more] -
“We are the only ecosystem that can truly deliver an enterprise data estate for an enterprise.”
– Judson Althoff, Microsoft EVP Worldwide Commercial Business [@judsonalthoff] -
“There are two types of companies. Those who've been hacked & those who don't know they've been hacked.”
– James Comey, FBI Director -
“Not only must you change, but you can change. There is a past and there’s going to be a future. And the future is going to derived on who digitizes the fastest.”
– Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO of GE [read more] -
“90% of the world's data has been generated in the last two years.”
– Kirk Koenigsbauer, Corporate VP Office Marketing [@kjkoenigsbauer] -
“Data is the new black ... it is the ticket to the C-suite.”
– Judson Althoff, Microsoft EVP Worldwide Commercial Business [@judsonalthoff] -
“1.8 million words is the value of one minute of video.”
– Dr. James McQuivey, Forrester [Blog] -
“By 2020 about 50% of all US workers will be millennials.”
– Kirk Koenigsbauer, Corporate VP Office Marketing [@kjkoenigsbauer] -
“Microsoft chose to embrace change, and our partners who have embraced the cloud have seen the payoff.”
– Gavriella Schuster, Corporate VP, Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group [@gavriels1] -
“Partners doing business with Microsoft are 19% more profitable than those working with our nearest cloud competitor, because we’re partner-led.”
– Gavriella Schuster, Corporate VP, Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group [@gavriels1] -
“Three startups gave me books for my son at WPC. Business should be personal; thanks to those that make it so.” – Matt Wallaert, Director at Microsoft Ventures [@mattwallaert]
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“We need an internet that respects people’s rights, we need an internet that’s governed by good law.”
– Brad Smith, Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer [read more] -
“Looking forward to this lady performing tonight [Gwen Stefani] ... and a few drinks.”
– Anonymous
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