Bill Gates Success Quotations

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.

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

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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

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.

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

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.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

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.

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.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

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.

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

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

Part of India's great success in the IT sector comes from the fantastic investment that the government has made over decades in institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology. India only has six or seven million seats at its universities, and it will need 20 to 25 million, so I think this is a great opportunity to rethink the idea of a university.

Paul was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft and has played an important role in the success and direction of our company throughout the years,

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

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

If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing.

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.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

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

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.

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

The best teacher is very interactive.

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.

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.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

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 I fished out listings of their operating systems.

Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.