“Leaders are those who empower others.”

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.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Always think, ‘what’s the worst that can happen’ and have some kind of strategy to deal with it.

The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.