As a shareholder I have expressed my frustration with not getting more information about revenue and margins from the cloud.

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.

To regain your lost years, you must make sure that any activity targeted at attaining your goal must be done with the qualities of intensity, speed and focus

Balance is the key to a long and happy life.

You are always guided and protected, loved unconditionally and never alone.

The unknown is scary. It’s unknown for a reason. That's why normal people don't go there.

That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.

Truth hurts. But lies can kill.

Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.

A man's library is a sort of harem.