The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

The farmer is the only man in our economy who has to buy everything at retail, sell everything at wholesale, and pay the freight both ways.

It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, as it was unlikely in the17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aristocracy. But the point is, it doesn't feel that way. It's made to feel, by magazines and other media outlets, that if you've got energy, a few bright ideas about technology, a garage -- you, too, could start a major thing.

改变始于一小步，但需要集体的努力才能持久。