“Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.”

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.

I work hard because I love my work.

If you’re too focused on your current business, it’s hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

I’m not an educator. I’m a learner.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?

Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.

Your customers get better when you do.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain’t no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Life is like an endless book. Each day is a new page and only death can bring the end to this little book of yours.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it.

I tried to write you as a novel but you were only meant to be a chapter.