Popular Bill Gates's Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

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

We're changing the world with technology.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Patience is a key element of success.

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

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

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

Don't let complexity stop you.

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.

Learn from your unhappy customers.

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.

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

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

The mainstream is always under attack.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

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

Often you have to rely on intuition.

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

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

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

I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.

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.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

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

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

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

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

Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for.

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

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

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

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

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

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.

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.

Life is not fair get used to used to it

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

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

Creativity allows people to be effective.

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

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

The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

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

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

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

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

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.

People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.

The best teacher is very interactive.

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.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

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.

Life's not fair, get over it!

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

Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.

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

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

This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.

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

Often you just have to rely on your intuition.

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.

Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.

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

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

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.

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

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

Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is extremely difficult.

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