American Quotes

Error is always more busy than truth.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.

So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic.

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.

Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.

Our company has to be a company that enables its people.

Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.

I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.