“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.”

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.

Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

I studied every thing but never topped. But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees

We’re changing the world with technology.

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.

In the end, I closed our book and never dared to read it again.

I’m focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I’ve either read or I plan on getting to.

Words could paint pictures.

Maybe that’s why it was so easy for you to break me, you can always tear the pages of an open book.

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

Books are great. A lot of condensed knowledge in the palm of your hand.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.