The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
When you do life a certain way, it's bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed, and that's what we preach.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried.
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.