He is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution, investor, philanthropist, author, and former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He has also authored or co-authored several books. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.
(1955 – )
– Bill Gates Quotes –
I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away.
~ 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
Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
~ Bill Gates
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
~ 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
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
~ Bill Gates
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
~ Bill Gates
Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.
~ 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.
~ 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 exciting.
~ Bill Gates
Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it’s about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it’s less than one ton. It’s an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
~ Bill Gates
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
~ Bill Gates
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
~ 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
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
~ Bill Gates
There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.
~ Bill Gates
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.
~ Bill Gates
I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.
~ Bill Gates
We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
~ Bill Gates
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.
~ Bill Gates
Life is not fair; get used to it.
~ Bill Gates
I’m sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn’t on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
~ Bill Gates
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
~ Bill Gates
Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we’re going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
~ Bill Gates
