♦ Patience is a key element of success – 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 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

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

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

♦ Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana – 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

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

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