Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence

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.

The spirit of hope, inner strength, enthusiasm and persistent determination are the pillars for any success.

Experience can not be improvise

We all envy other people's luck.

I would be very surprised if on another planet we discovered a species as intelligent as humans that didn't have narrative, or didn't have art in general.

Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

I love the expression that 'When your Bible is falling apart, the man isn't.'

Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.

It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.

Along with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me.

Don't expect others to do your work for you.