In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.

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.

I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

This is the idea that has made me...an anonymous figure in America...If you have children here tonight...they are NOT special.

The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.

So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.