Bill gates quotes

Bridge is the king of all card games.

I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.

I didn't even complete my University Education

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

There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business

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

The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.

Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.

Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.

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.

Make it just like a Mac.

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

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.

People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.

Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.

I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.

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

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

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

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

We're changing the world with technology.

Convert bad news to good news.

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.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

If I only had two dollars left I would spend one dollar on PR.

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

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

Don't let complexity stop you.

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

The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

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.

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

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.

Patience is a key element of success.

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

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.

Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.

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

Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.

How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

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

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.

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

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

I work hard because I love my work.

Often you have to rely on intuition.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Computers and games don't waste time - people do.

Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.

The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.

Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.

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

Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.

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.

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

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

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

Thanks to quality education, Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world .. Israel is advancing in high-tech even more than other developed countries.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.

Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.

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.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.

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

You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses

There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.

Creativity allows people to be effective.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

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.

Life's not fair, get over it!

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

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

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.

Learn from your unhappy customers.

Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.

This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

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

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

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.

For one thing, there's an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn't matter if you have a perfect product, production plan and marketing pitch; you'll still need the right people to lead and implement those plans.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

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

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

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

Banking is necessary - banks are not.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

I don't think culture is something you can describe.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

Vision without execution is daydreaming.