Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)

Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high.

A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period.

A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.

I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Let us fight to free the world!

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!