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> Life is not fair. get used to it.

> “I don't know" has become "I don't know yet."

> Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

> If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

> Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

> If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.  He doesn't have tenure.

> If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

> The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

> You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of High School. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone, until you earn both.

> 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.

> Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

> We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here. We are experiencing the early days of a revolution>. that will be long-lived and widespread.

> Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

> One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products.

> There will be 'two societies' in the future: high-paid knowledge workers and low-paid service workers.

> 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.

> I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

> I'm in the same traffic as everybody else. I'm in the same airplane delay as everybody else. I sit in the same coach seat as everybody else.

> As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

> Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

> Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

> 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.

> It is really gratifying to visit India and see that because they've had good educational institutions and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

> Everyone who has been in this industry has had a chance to participate in something very exciting. It is kind of like early steam engines or factories or something.  The timing was right for the people who got to do it. And that is a lucky thing for them. Certainly, Microsoft got to play that role and involved a lot of people and it's been fun.  The impact is there, but compared to what the potential is, it is still quite modest.

> Let's drive not just breakthroughs in new products but new ways to give more and more people access to these inventions and their benefits. This is a broad and important mission and I believe we all have a part to play in it.

> Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes>. thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.

> I never would have predicted it. I didn't set out to achieve some level of wealth or size of company. I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, "Wow, that's amazing." But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.