Bill Gates Quotes

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

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

You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.

Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.

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.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

Life's not fair, get over it!

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

I spend a lot of time reading.

Don't let complexity stop you.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.

You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.

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

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.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success

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

Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

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

Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam.

It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!

Make it just like a Mac.

It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.

What I do best is share my enthusiasm.

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

Being maniacal about something is very helpful.

Information work is thinking work.

Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

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

Creativity allows people to be effective.

Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.