Top 1132 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Gates
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman Bill Gates.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.
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.
Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.
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.
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.
Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.
In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
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.
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.
Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
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.
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
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 future of advertising is the Internet.
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.
Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
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.
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?
I'm a geek.
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.
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
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.
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.
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.
By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
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.
Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
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.
The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
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 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.
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
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