No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

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.

Five years of love, and they only fit in such a small box.

I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them.

But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person I guess.

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving.

L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.

I would say if you are going to party, show up on time to work.

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.