Bill Gates Quotations | Page 5

Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

People everywhere love Windows.

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

Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !

I have $100 billion… You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime…

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

Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

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.

Leaders are those who empower others.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

I don't have any TVs with their over-the-air receivers connected in my house. But when I'm in a hotel room or other places that have a TV, then I turn it on and flip the channels just like everybody else. I'm not immune to the lures of television. I just try to stay away from it because I like to read.

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

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

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

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

We're changing the world with technology.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

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.

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It starts to balance out.

Patience is a key element of success.

If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.

I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

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.

I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.

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

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

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes ... Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organization and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world.

My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.

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

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.

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

If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that you really care about. Then, learn as much as you can about it and try to volunteer your time to help an organization that is working in this area. While you're doing that, look for creative new ways to use technology to tackle parts of the problem that you come in contact with.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

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

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

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.

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

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.

About three million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

What I do best is share my enthusiasm.

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.

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.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

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

Life's not fair, get over it!

As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice...

Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.

I spend a lot of time reading.

Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?" People don't forget that.

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.

It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.

In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it.

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

Often you just have to rely on your intuition.

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

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.

Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.

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

Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time.

The government is there day in and day out, if you want all kids to have education, if you want to run courts, if you want to have an army, if you want to have roads, you've got to have the taxation system that funds everything that you expect.

Even when I wrote Basic myself the day before I burned it into a computer I wasn't making design changes. I didn't have a testing team. I did all the testing myself. And there was no project methodology or schedule that, there was the notion of coming to a close means testing a lot at the end and making very few changes.

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.

If I had one dollar left, I'd spend it on PR

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

I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.

The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you

I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. ... 20 years from now, labor demand for lots of skill sets will be substantially lower. I don’t think people have that in their mental model.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

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

Life is not fair get used to used to it