Top 500 Bill Gates Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Don’t let complexity stop you.”

— Bill Gates

202. “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

203. “Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you’ll see someone else’s program or somebody will come along and they’ll show you what can be done in a simpler way.”

— Bill Gates

204. “I’m not a macroeconomics person.”

— Bill Gates

205. “With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.”

— Bill Gates

206. “Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.”

— Bill Gates

207. “Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.”

— Bill Gates

208. “The best teacher is very interactive.”

— Bill Gates

209. “What I do best is share my enthusiasm.”

— Bill Gates

210. “Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it “tap dancing to work.””

— Bill Gates

211. “I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.”

— Bill Gates

212. “The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.”

— Bill Gates

213. “Everything on the internet is real god damn it!”

— Bill Gates

214. “This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.”

— Bill Gates

215. “If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn’t matter how much we master the secrets of science. We’re not really solving problems, we’re just working on puzzles.”

— Bill Gates

216. “By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.”

— Bill Gates

217. “Often you just have to rely on your intuition.”

— Bill Gates

218. “Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.”

— Bill Gates

219. “Windows 95 was a nice milestone.”

— Bill Gates

220. “In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.”

— Bill Gates

221. “Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.”

— Bill Gates

222. “Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.”

— Bill Gates

223. “Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.”

— Bill Gates

224. “Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.”

— Bill Gates

225. “When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.”

— Bill Gates

226. “Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.”

— Bill Gates

227. “Microsoft is always two years away from failure.”

— Bill Gates

228. “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

229. “Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.”

— Bill Gates

230. “I’m cooler than you. WAAAY cooler.”

— Bill Gates

231. “Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.”

— Bill Gates

232. “I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: ‘Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.’ I want to thank Harvard for this honor. I’ll be changing my job next year and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume!”

— Bill Gates

233. “It’s the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.”

— Bill Gates

234. “Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.”

— Bill Gates

235. “Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.”

— Bill Gates

236. “We will never make a 32-bit operating system.”

— Bill Gates

237. “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

238. “The microprocessor is a miracle.”

— Bill Gates

239. “The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.”

— Bill Gates

240. “Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.”

— Bill Gates

241. “Our teachers deserve better feedback.”

— Bill Gates

242. “As I look forward, I’m very optimistic about the things I see ahead.”

— Bill Gates

243. “Training the workforce of tomorrow with today’s high schools is like trying to teach kids about today’s computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.”

— Bill Gates

244. “Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.”

— Bill Gates

245. “For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.”

— Bill Gates

246. “I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn’t end up in computer science.”

— Bill Gates

247. “The CEO’s role in raising a company’s corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.”

— Bill Gates

248. “The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.”

— Bill Gates

249. “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

250. “Don’t wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.”

— Bill Gates