People Quotes

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.

The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

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

Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.