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

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.

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.

A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he’s making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don’t make any difference if it’s baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It’s business, I tell you. There ain’t no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you didn’t make mistakes, you wouldn’t get far.

I will not reason and compare my business is to create.

My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business.

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.