As a global company, our future growth and success requires that we constantly look at ways to improve our ability to serve customers worldwide.

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.

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.

I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived.

Sometimes you have to open yourself to the random possibilities of, I guess, destiny.

People don't know this, but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it!

As I've gotten older, I've really wanted to find more balance and calm.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.