Top 500 Bill Gates Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.”

— Bill Gates

102. “Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.”

— Bill Gates

103. “I get more spam than anyone I know.”

— Bill Gates

104. “No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

106. “Two years from now, spam will be solved.”

— Bill Gates

107. “Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We’ve never wavered from that vision.”

— Bill Gates

108. “Certain teams are more careful in what they write. They generate less bugs. You can know that but it still doesn’t mean there might be there might not be one bug that would be bad to ship the product with.”

— Bill Gates

109. “It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they’ve had good educational institutions, and they’ve had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.”

— Bill Gates

110. “Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.”

— Bill Gates

111. “If I were down to the last dollar of my marketing budget, I’d spend it on PR!”

— Bill Gates

112. “Creativity allows people to be effective.”

— Bill Gates

113. “Convert bad news to good news.”

— Bill Gates

114. “The world needs banking but it does not need banks.”

— Bill Gates

115. “The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.”

— Bill Gates

116. “I am results-oriented.”

— Bill Gates

117. “K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.”

— Bill Gates

118. “The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.”

— Bill Gates

119. “There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

122. “Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.”

— Bill Gates

123. “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

124. “Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.”

— Bill Gates

125. “You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses.”

— Bill Gates

126. “My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.”

— Bill Gates

127. “The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.”

— Bill Gates

128. “No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer.”

— Bill Gates

129. “Long-term vision and product strategy.”

— Bill Gates

130. “Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.”

— Bill Gates

131. “The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.”

— Bill Gates

132. “Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.”

— Bill Gates

133. “I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.”

— Bill Gates

134. “Every day were saying, ‘How can we keep this customer happy?’ How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don’t, somebody else will.”

— Bill Gates

135. “If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.”

— Bill Gates

136. “It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.”

— Bill Gates

137. “You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.”

— Bill Gates

138. “Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.”

— Bill Gates

139. “I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.”

— Bill Gates

140. “Computers and games don’t waste time – people do.”

— Bill Gates

141. “Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?”

— Bill Gates

142. “Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.”

— Bill Gates

143. “Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.”

— Bill Gates

144. “Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.”

— Bill Gates

145. “Bitcoin is a technological tour de force.”

— Bill Gates

146. “A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.”

— Bill Gates

147. “Bridge is the king of all card games.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

149. “DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”

— Bill Gates

150. “Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.”

— Bill Gates