Bill Gates Quotes
William Henry Gates III, also known as Bill Gates, was born on the 28th of October, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Bill Gates is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. He grew up in Seattle, Washington, with a supportive family that encouraged his interest in computers at an early age. Bill Gates dropped out of college to start Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
Bill Gates is an American business magnate and software developer. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.
In this article, you will find a collection of popular Bill Gates quotes about success, technology, business, life, love and money.
80 Famous Bill Gates Quotes About Life, Business & Success
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. __Bill Gates
“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.” – Bill Gates
“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.” – Bill Gates
“Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you. Find yourself.” – Bill Gates
“I’m a big believer that as much as possible, and there’s obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.” – Bill Gates
“I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.” – Bill Gates
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates
“Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.” – Bill Gates
“The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.” – Bill Gates
“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.” – Bill Gates
“We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.” – Bill Gates
“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.” – Bill Gates
“I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.” – Bill Gates
“Who decides what’s in Windows? The customers who buy it.” – Bill Gates
“Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.” – Bill Gates
“The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.”– Bill Gates
“The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.” – Bill Gates
“In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation’s future.” – Bill Gates
“The vision is about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.”― Bill Gates
“A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is, and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.”– Bill Gates
“Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.”– Bill Gates
I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user. Bill Gates
Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society. Bill Gates
Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don’t think over time that’s a good way to go. I’m a huge believe in digital currency… but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I’m not involved in Bitcoin. Bill Gates
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. Bill Gates
There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft. Bill Gates
Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy. Bill Gates
The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking. Bill Gates
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It’s fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form. Bill Gates
The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. Bill Gates
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. Bill Gates
“Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.” – Bill Gates
“If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.” – Bill Gates
“Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.” – Bill Gates
“Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated.” – Bill Gates
“We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.” – Bill Gates
“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.” – Bill Gates
“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.” – Bill Gates
“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.” – Bill Gates
“If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.” – Bill Gates
“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.” – Bill Gates
“The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.” – Bill Gates
“I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!” – Bill Gates
“The best teacher is very interactive.” – Bill Gates
“We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.” – Bill Gates
“To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.” – Bill Gates
“I studied every thing but never topped.. But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees”- Bill Gates
“Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risk.”― Bill Gates
“Life is not fair, get used to it.”– Bill Gates
“If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, But if you die poor it’s your mistake.”– Bill Gates
“I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.”– Bill Gates
If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone. Bill Gates
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. Bill Gates
Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. Bill Gates
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back. Bill Gates
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. Bill Gates
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. Bill Gates
Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness. Bill Gates
The future of advertising is the Internet. Bill Gates
Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable. Bill Gates
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies. Bill Gates
Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. Bill Gates
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. Bill Gates
“A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.” – Bill Gates
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” – Bill Gates
“Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.”– Bill Gates
“In this business, by the time you realize you are in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless your running scared all the time, you’re gone.”― Bill Gates
“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.” – Bill Gates
“Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.” – Bill Gates
“In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.” – Bill Gates
“Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.” – Bill Gates
“I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.” – Bill Gates
“There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.” – Bill Gates
“If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?” – Bill Gates
“Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.” – Bill Gates
“Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.” – Bill Gates
“I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.” – Bill Gates
“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.” – Bill Gates
“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.” – Bill Gates