If you don’t ask, you don’t get.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

I’m always impressed by confidence, kindness and a sense of humor.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car but because they sing a song only you can hear.

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the one who matters.

Appreciation is an excellent thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us, as well.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.

The truly passionate people do it out of love, caring and truth.

While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

I'm not a macroeconomics person.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

I am results-oriented.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.