“I read an hour almost every night. It’s part of falling asleep.”

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

Don’t let complexity stop you.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

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.

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.

The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.

Reading one book a day to your child can change the trajectory of their future.

People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book.

I was an imaginative child and learning to read was like unlocking another dimension in my mind.

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.