“There’s a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.”

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.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Leaders are those who empower others.

Patience is a key element of success.

Be nice to nerds, they’ll probably be your boss one day.

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.