Top 500 Bill Gates Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.”

— Bill Gates

252. “For one thing, there’s an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn’t matter if you have a perfect product, production plan and marketing pitch; you’ll still need the right people to lead and implement those plans.”

— Bill Gates

253. “You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.”

— Bill Gates

254. “I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”

— Bill Gates

255. “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

256. “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

257. “This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.”

— Bill Gates

258. “We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.”

— Bill Gates

259. “I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.”

— Bill Gates

260. “The most important ‘speed’ issue is often not technical but cultural. It’s convincing everyone that the company’s survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible.”

— Bill Gates

261. “The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.”

— Bill Gates

262. “If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.”

— Bill Gates

263. “We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.”

— Bill Gates

264. “If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that’s your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.”

— Bill Gates

265. “My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.”

— Bill Gates

266. “If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.”

— Bill Gates

267. “Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.”

— Bill Gates

268. “In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation’s future.”

— Bill Gates

269. “You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.”

— Bill Gates

270. “The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.”

— Bill Gates

271. “Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.”

— Bill Gates

272. “If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?”

— Bill Gates

273. “By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.”

— Bill Gates

274. “Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.”

— Bill Gates

275. “Life is not a continuous process, there’s some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.”

— Bill Gates

276. “Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.”

— Bill Gates

277. “The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that’s one of the greatest programming feats I’ve ever had a chance to work on.”

— Bill Gates

278. “I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.”

— Bill Gates

279. “I like to read general biology – things about the immune system and advances in that area – because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue.”

— Bill Gates

280. “Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.”

— Bill Gates

281. “The greatest thing you can do for your competition – hire poorly.”

— Bill Gates

282. “Success is a lousy teacher.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

284. “Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.”

— Bill Gates

285. “Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.”

— Bill Gates

286. “Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.”

— Bill Gates

287. “The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‘Does your teacher use class time well?’ and, ‘When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?’”

— Bill Gates

288. “Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.”

— Bill Gates

289. “You can be a business thinker.”

— Bill Gates

290. “In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don’t feel as bad about it as if it was someone else’s.”

— Bill Gates

291. “The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.”

— Bill Gates

292. “This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It’s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.”

— Bill Gates

293. “In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.”

— Bill Gates

294. “The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.”

— Bill Gates

295. “Rules broken today become norms tomorrow.”

— Bill Gates

296. “I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.”

— Bill Gates

297. “Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.”

— Bill Gates

298. “Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can’t put numbers to it. And yet it’s the thing that defines the way we live, the things we’d like to have for everyone whether it’s health or education.”

— Bill Gates

299. “The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg’s press did the Middle Ages.”

— Bill Gates

300. “The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.”

— Bill Gates