Bill Gates

Bill Gates- "Business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50."


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

Bill Gates

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

Bill Gates

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.

Bill Gates

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

Bill Gates

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

We bet the company on Windows and we deserve to benefit. It was a risk that´´s paid off immensely.

Bill Gates

Capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

Bill Gates

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.

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

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

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

Bill Gates

I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

Bill Gates

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

Bill Gates

If you give people tools, (and they use) their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected

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

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Bill Gates

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

Bill Gates

Life is not fair; get used to it.

Bill Gates

Intel was a customer for our BASIC. They came out and asked us to do some custom work. I remember telling them that I could do it in two weeks. And they said, “Don’t say that, don’t say that — say four months — say something reasonable.” And it turned out that it took four weeks to do, because configuring their system was so hard.

Bill Gates

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

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

The frontiers were sort of wide open. It was that sense of excitement that we really wanted to spark in everybody else wherever we went.

Bill Gates

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.

Bill Gates

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

Bill Gates

I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.

Bill Gates

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

Bill Gates

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates

I have 100 billion dollars… You realize I could spend 3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that’s if I don’t make another dime. Tell you what-I’ll buy your right arm for a million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your arm right here.

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

You need to know about customer feedback that says things should be better.

Bill Gates

The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways…are available thanks to technology.

Bill Gates

We’re focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvements for a much better experience, and there’s a lot going on here that speaks to this decade and what’s going to happen in this decade. We can kind of sum it up in terms of saying, “Yes, you can.”

Bill Gates

My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.

Bill Gates

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams, give them excellent tools…so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

Bill Gates

Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don’t act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.

Bill Gates