“Your customers get better when you do.”

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

Don’t let complexity stop you.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

Creativity allows people to be effective.

Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

It’s the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation’s future.

The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company.

If you are born Poor its not your mistake, but if you die poor its your mistake.

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Software is more important than hardware.

We will make machines that can reason, think and do things better than we can.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Don’t worry we will win this game.

There are no shortcuts – everything is reps, reps, reps.

You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.

Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.