- “Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.”
- “The future of advertising is the Internet.”
- “We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.”
- “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.”
- “People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?”
- “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 quotes about computers
- “I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.”
- “Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.
“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”
- “Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you. Find yourself.”
- “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.”
- Patience is key element of success.
- “Reward worthy failure—experimentation.”
- “If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, But if you die poor it’s your mistake.”
- “The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.”
- “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.”
“We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.”
- “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.”
- “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
- “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without talking about the other.”
- “If I had to say what is the thing that I feel best about, it’s being involved in this whole software revolution and what comes out of that, because you can go all over the world and go into schools and see these computers being used and go into hospitals and see them being used, and see how they’re tools for sharing information that hopefully leads to more peaceful conditions and just the great research advances that come out of that.”
- “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”
- “Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.” , Bill Gates quotes about life
- “Life is not fair – get used to it!”
“I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’.”
- “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.”
- “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
- “Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.”
- “Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.” , Bill Gates quotes about success
- “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 world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.”
“If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.”
- “Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.”
- “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.”
- If You cant make it good, make at least look good.
- “If you were born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.”
- “A company’s ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad, is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.”
- “On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.”
- “What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.”
- “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.”
“I am results-oriented.”
- “Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‘tap-dancing to work.”
- “When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.”
- “I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improve the human condition.”
- “Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
- “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.”
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