Top 500 Bill Gates Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.”

— Bill Gates

152. “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

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

— Bill Gates

154. “An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.”

— Bill Gates

155. “I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.”

— Bill Gates

156. “Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.”

— Bill Gates

157. “Software is more important than hardware.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

159. “Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.”

— Bill Gates

160. “Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.”

— Bill Gates

161. “The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.”

— Bill Gates

162. “Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.”

— Bill Gates

163. “We need to start thinking about the Future of Food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.”

— Bill Gates

164. “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

165. “Power comes not from knowledge kept but from knowledge shared.”

— Bill Gates

166. “Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like a part of yourself that you’ve put together. I think a lot of the people here feel that way.”

— Bill Gates

167. “It’s really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.”

— Bill Gates

168. “Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.”

— Bill Gates

169. “I spend a lot of time reading.”

— Bill Gates

170. “Reward worthy failure – Experimentation.”

— Bill Gates

171. “The future of advertising is the Internet.”

— Bill Gates

172. “Africa is on the rise.”

— Bill Gates

173. “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

174. “Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.”

— Bill Gates

175. “Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.”

— Bill Gates

176. “The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.”

— Bill Gates

177. “Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.”

— Bill Gates

178. “We’re all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.”

— Bill Gates

179. “The Internet? We are not interested in it.”

— Bill Gates

180. “Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company.”

— Bill Gates

181. “Be nice to nerds, they’ll probably be your boss one day.”

— Bill Gates

182. “I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.”

— Bill Gates

183. “In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.”

— Bill Gates

184. “Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.”

— Bill Gates

185. “The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.”

— Bill Gates

186. “It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.”

— Bill Gates

187. “Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.”

— Bill Gates

188. “The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.”

— Bill Gates

189. “A company’s ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.”

— Bill Gates

190. “Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.”

— Bill Gates

191. “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

192. “I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it’s the same hamburger.”

— Bill Gates

193. “A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.”

— Bill Gates

194. “Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.”

— Bill Gates

195. “The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.”

— Bill Gates

196. “Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.”

— Bill Gates

197. “People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?”

— Bill Gates

198. “I’m an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.”

— Bill Gates

199. “Don’t let complexity stop you.”

— Bill Gates

200. “Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.”

— Bill Gates