If geek means you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

Patience is a key element of success.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want that on my business card.

If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Often you just have to rely on your intuition.

You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.