As you look at your life look at your goals and dreams, it's better to be prepared for an opportunity not have one than have an opportunity and not be prepared. If you expect to reach your goal prepare yourself now.

You may not accomplish every goal you set—no one does—but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly. In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you achieve, that is most important.

High Standards for High Achievement.

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

Look: invest in what you understand, what's foreseeably going to offer real value and returns, not necessarily what's trendy.

Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.