Bill Gates Quotes

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.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society.

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

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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

Leaders are those who empower others.

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

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.

People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.

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

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

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

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

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.

If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.

When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand,the whole world forget who you are.It's life.

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.

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

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

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

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

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

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

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

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

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

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

Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.

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

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

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

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.

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

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

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

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

Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one.

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.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

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