Bill Gates Quotes

♦ Life is not fair, get used to it – Bill Gates

♦ I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’ – Bill Gates

♦ The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself – Bill Gates

♦ If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss – Bill Gates

♦ Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity – Bill Gates

♦ 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 are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room – Bill Gates

♦ If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them – Bill Gates

♦ Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life – 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. Do that on your own time – Bill Gates

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

♦ I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one’s children. It’s not constructive for them – Bill Gates

♦ Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning – 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

♦ Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana – 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

♦ 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

♦ There’s only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that’s already been written – Bill Gates

♦ Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved – Bill Gates

♦ 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 – 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

♦ 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

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

♦  People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? – Bill Gates

♦  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 – Bill Gates

♦ We’re responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software. that’s something we brought to computing. And so it’s a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don’t get in the way of that dream – Bill Gates

♦ It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not – Bill Gates

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

♦ If something is expensive to develop, and somebody’s not going to get paid, it won’t get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not? – Bill Gates

♦ If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act – Bill Gates

♦ If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good – 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

♦ Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana – Bill Gates

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

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

♦ 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 – 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

♦ Patience is a key element of success – Bill Gates

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

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

♦  If geek means you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble – 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. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system – Bill Gates

♦ Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight – Bill Gates

♦  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 – Bill Gates

♦  To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks – Bill Gates

♦ Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself – Bill Gates

♦ You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both – Bill Gates

♦ Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one – 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 irritating – 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

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

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

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

♦  The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier – Bill Gates

♦ To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination — and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard – 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

♦ 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 – 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