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60 Bill Gates Quotes & Sayings
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60 Bill Gates Quotes & Sayings
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Born: October 28, 1955 |
Business magnate
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Software Developer
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Investor
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Philanthropist
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Life is not fair; get used to it.
Bill Gates
Life
Fair
Get
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Success is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose.
Bill Gates
Success
Teacher
Smart
Lose
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Bill Gates
Life
Divided
Employers
Interested
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Technology
Tool
Motivating
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I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
Bill Gates
Lazy
Person
Hard
Job
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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
Bill Gates
Software
Microsoft
Successful
Forward
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Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
Bill Gates
Software
Great
Combination
Artistry
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Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
Bill Gates
Exposure
Young Age
Realities
World
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I don't think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.
Bill Gates
Human
Intelligence
Unique
About
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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. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?
Bill Gates
Confusing
Money
Period
Ability
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Bill Gates
Believe
Innovation
Fund
Research
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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
People
Capitalism
PC
Microsoft
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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates
Celebrate
Failure
Heed
Important
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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.
Bill Gates
Advance
Based
Life
Everyday
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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.
Bill Gates
Applied
Automation
Business
Efficiency
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We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
Bill Gates
Basic
Close
Dream
Finishing
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We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
Bill Gates
Give
Improve
Need
People
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Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
Bill Gates
Ability
Collaborate
Ideas
Customers
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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
Communication
Computers
Created
Creativity
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The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates
Global
Internet
Square
Tomorrow
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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
Morning
Religion
Resources
Sunday
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Customers
Greatest
Learning
Source
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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
Interwoven
Business
Information
Talk
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When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Bill Gates
Choices
Fill
Return
Homework
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We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
Bill Gates
Behavior
Changing
Got
Lot
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Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
Bill Gates
Fairness
Greed
Innovation
Microsoft
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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Bill Gates
Apple
Competitors
Fantastic
Free
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates
Accept
Always
Change
Coal
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I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Bill Gates
Act
Believe
Moved
People
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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates
Banana
Intellectual
Life
Property
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Good
Least
Look
Make
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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates
Ahead
Century
Empower
Leaders
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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
City
Cleaned
Educating
Fantastic
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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
Effects
Enhances
Freedoms
Great
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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
Chance
Deal
Dreams
Fact
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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
Business
Gone
Late
Realize
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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
Business
Change
Entering
Fantastic
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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
Change
Inaction
Next
Occur
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There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
Bill Gates
Application
Bureaucrat
Draw
Line
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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
Bill Gates
Believe
Expectations
Form
People
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I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
Bill Gates
Excellent
Memory
Most
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I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
Bill Gates
Day
Fanatical
Less
Little
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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
Bill Gates
Book
Lot
Nice
Obscure
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Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
Bill Gates
Digital
Fantastic
Lightweight
Over
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I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
Bill Gates
Agricultural
Enormous
Lift
Farmers
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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.
Bill Gates
Research
Big
Component
Crucial
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Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
Bill Gates
Feel
Fortunate
Prescription
Responsibility
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In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
Bill Gates
Color
Communities
Correlation
Educational
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In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.
Bill Gates
American
Asian
Classes
Concepts
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Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.
Bill Gates
Government
Money
Risks
Private
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