"The key thing you can do to..." - Quote by Bill Gates

“Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.”

“The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.”

“The most straightforward path would be if we could bring the cost of solar electric and wind down by another factor of say, three, and then have some miraculous storage solution, so that not only over the 24-hour day but over long periods of time where the wind doesn't blow, you have reliable energy. That's a path. But energy storage is hard. That's not a guaranteed path.”

“Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.”

“As we have taken diarrhea and pneumonia down, even malaria down quite a bit, the portion of the days that are very early in that 5 years - the first month, the first day - it's about half now. Yet that's the part we understand the least.”

“Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.”

“The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.”

“Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"”

“Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.”