Inspiration Quotes

In the humble environs of my boyhood, books were a scarce commodity. By local standards, however, the personal library of STR Manickam, a former 'revolutionary' or militant nationalist, was sizeable. He encouraged me to read all I could and I often visited his home to borrow books.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

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

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

Work while others are wishing.

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

Music alone can take you to the Highest!

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.