At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !

I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society.

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going.

It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.