I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly.

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.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

It's very confusing to me why people take comedians so seriously.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.