Bill Gates Quotes

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Bill Gates Quotes

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you. Find yourself.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated.

I’m a big believer that as much as possible, and there’s obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

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

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until ever inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don’t just think, ‘Yes, my country is doing well,’ but you think about the world at large.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines show us the way.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Who decides what’s in Windows? The customers who buy it.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

I studied every thing but never topped.. But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation’s future.

Life is not fair, get used to it.

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Patience is a key element of success.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want that on my business card.

If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

If geek means you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Often you just have to rely on your intuition.

You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.

Leaders are those who empower others.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

I work hard because I love my work.

If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

Computers and games don't waste time - people do.

How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.

We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !

There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

The greatest thing you can do for your competition - hire poorly.

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

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

I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in.

Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.

I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses

I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.

I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Don't let complexity stop you.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

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Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you. Find yourself.
If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.
Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated.
I’m a big believer that as much as possible, and there’s obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.
Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until ever inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don’t just think, ‘Yes, my country is doing well,’ but you think about the world at large.
If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?
We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.
You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines show us the way.
The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
Who decides what’s in Windows? The customers who buy it.
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.
Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
I studied every thing but never topped..
But today the toppers of the best universities
are my employees
In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation’s future.
Life is not fair, get used to it.
A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
I am not in competition with anyone but myself.
My goal is to improve myself continuously.
The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Patience is a key element of success.
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?
In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want that on my business card.
If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
If geek means you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.
Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.
I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’.
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Often you just have to rely on your intuition.
You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.
I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.
The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.
Leaders are those who empower others.
I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
I work hard because I love my work.
If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.
Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.
Computers and games don't waste time - people do.
How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.
I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.
We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but
we get Growth from only those who don't agree
with us !
There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business
Vision without execution is daydreaming.
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.
The world needs banking but it does not need banks.
The greatest thing you can do for your competition - hire poorly.
Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.
Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.
We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in.
Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.
I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.
Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.
It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.
[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses
I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.
I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.
If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.
Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.
I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Don't let complexity stop you.
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.
It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.
Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.
I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.
To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.
Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.
Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.
If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.
If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.