Top 500 Bill Gates Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.”

— Bill Gates

52. “There’s nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.”

— Bill Gates

53. “If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.””

— Bill Gates

54. “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.”

— Bill Gates

55. “Even though I only have a high-school degree, I’m a professional student.”

— Bill Gates

56. “The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening.”

— Bill Gates

57. “If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.”

— Bill Gates

58. “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

59. “Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a “nervous system”, to coordinate its actions.”

— Bill Gates

60. “Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.”

— Bill Gates

61. “Vision without execution is daydreaming.”

— Bill Gates

62. “The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It’s science that people want to work on.”

— Bill Gates

63. “People everywhere love Windows.”

— Bill Gates

64. “Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.”

— Bill Gates

65. “Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

67. “If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it’s good. It starts to balance out.”

— Bill Gates

68. “Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life’s pleasures or what kills you.”

— Bill Gates

69. “We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.”

— Bill Gates

70. “Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.”

— Bill Gates

71. “We’re at the point now where the challenge isn’t how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it’s ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.”

— Bill Gates

72. “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

73. “When I was in college, for the games of that era, I was as hard core as anyone was. I wouldn’t say I outgrew it, but you always have to have a finite number of addictions.”

— Bill Gates

74. “Philanthropy is fun and fulfilling.”

— Bill Gates

75. “I don’t generally read a lot of fiction.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

77. “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

78. “I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.”

— Bill Gates

79. “I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.”

— Bill Gates

80. “3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we’re getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we’ve ever had before.”

— Bill Gates

81. “A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.”

— Bill Gates

82. “Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.”

— Bill Gates

83. “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.”

— Bill Gates

84. “If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.”

— Bill Gates

85. “There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.”

— Bill Gates

86. “Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It’s much easier than roads and a great education system. It’s very basic. It’s one of the first things you want to get right.”

— Bill Gates

87. “I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he’s got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.”

— Bill Gates

88. “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.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

90. “I don’t think you’re as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.”

— Bill Gates

91. “The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.”

— Bill Gates

92. “If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing.”

— Bill Gates

93. “I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.”

— Bill Gates

94. “There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.”

— Bill Gates

95. “Stolen’s a strong word. It’s copyrighted content that the owner wasn’t paid for.”

— Bill Gates

96. “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

97. “In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.”

— Bill Gates

98. “According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.”

— Bill Gates

99. “As for drugs – well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice...”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates