"The only big companies that succeed will..." - Quote by Bill Gates

“I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.”

“Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.”

“We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.”

“Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.”

“If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.”

“My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's typical question was "We have always done this. Why don't we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?"”

“Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.”

“At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.”

“A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures.”