Bill Gates

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don’t take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death’s valley.

You will have failures in your life, but it is what you do during those valleys that will determine the heights of your peaks.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.

Thanks to emptiness, everything is possible.

Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.

Every man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential – unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.