“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.

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

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

The best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize the company.

I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I’ve tried to really stress that.

You don’t need to have a 100 person company to develop that idea.

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

I’m going to go do this crazy thing. I’m going to start this company selling books online.