Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

Accessible design is good design.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

The world is changing, but so is Microsoft.

You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.

And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there.

I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.

He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. “I thought I’d die for wanting you.

I mean, you want the truth as you wanna hear it? I can't do that. You couldn't afford me.

One who has great love has great power.

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.

In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.