Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.
Who decides what’s in Windows? The customers who buy it.
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines show us the way.