Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

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.

Being an entrepreneur cannot be defined by your successes until it has been built by your failures.

Any country that is now humbled and humiliated by darkness will be raised up by God

I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

I got told I needed a producer I don't know how many times - maybe 27 times, 30? Then I recently got told 'I'm so proud of you.' That was even more great to hear.

Don't take life too seriously Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit Laugh at it

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

I wanted to be a teacher. My dad was a teacher.

Forget the pain. Learn to endure. Focus your attention elsewhere.

All art is subversive.

You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin