Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined examined reduced to essentials and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life no matter what may be one's aim.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work Stick-to-itiveness and Common sense.

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

To me business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Besides the noble art of getting things done there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.