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Quotes By Bill Gates

Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. Bill Gates is an American business magnate, chairman of Microsoft, philanthropist and author. He founded his software company with Paul Allen. He is the world’s richest person and has still maintained the consistency of being No1 wealthiest person over all till today. He is an entrepreneur of the personal computer revolution. He has also found a foundation known as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which was established in 2000 for scientific research programs. In his later stages he is been donating money to many charitable organizations and have purchased number of philanthropic endeavors for the same.

“Quotes By Bill Gates”

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
Bill Gates

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

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

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates

Life is not fair, get used to it.
Bill Gates

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.
Bill Gates

Patience is a key element of success.
Bill Gates

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

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

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.
Bill Gates

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

Let’s face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.
Bill Gates

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

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

DOS is ugly and interferes with users’ experience.
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 don’t think there’s anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.
Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates

Life is not fair; get used to it.
Bill Gates

The Internet will help achieve “friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
Bill Gates

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Bill Gates

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.
Bill Gates

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.
Bill Gates

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

People everywhere love Windows.
Bill Gates

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Bill Gates

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

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
Bill Gates

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

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates

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

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

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

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

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It�s a good thing we have museums to document that.
Bill Gates

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

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.
Bill Gates

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

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
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

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

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.
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 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

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
Bill Gates

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

The Internet will help achieve “friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
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

The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said or quotations, there should be a platform that’s identical with millions and millions of machines.
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 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

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
Bill Gates

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
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

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.
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 will show us the way.
Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
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

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

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

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

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.
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

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the ’90s.
Bill Gates

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

I’m sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn’t on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
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

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they’re not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.
Bill Gates

I mean, if we said right now, there’s somebody in the next room who’s dying, let’s all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.
Bill Gates

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