Top 500 Bill Gates Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

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

— Bill Gates

203. “The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It’s not a computation device, it’s not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It’s a window onto the world of information.”

— Bill Gates

204. “Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren’t defeated by it. You’re learning from it.”

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

214. “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

215. “Windows 95 was a nice milestone.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

223. “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

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

228. “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

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

231. “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

232. “The microprocessor is a miracle.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

236. “Our teachers deserve better feedback.”

— Bill Gates

237. “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

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

— Bill Gates

239. “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

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

242. “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

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

246. “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

247. “I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.”

— Bill Gates

248. “In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.”

— Bill Gates

249. “You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines show us the way.”

— Bill Gates

250. “If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.”

— Bill Gates