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

Patience is a key element of success.

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

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

The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.

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.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

What I do best is share my enthusiasm.

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.

I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’.

My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.

Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

A good first impression can work wonders.

Do the thing and the power will come.

Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

Too many rules stifle innovation.