Top 500 Bill Gates Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one’s children. It’s not constructive for them.”

— Bill Gates

402. “I’ve said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.”

— Bill Gates

403. “I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.”

— Bill Gates

404. “We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they’re the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.”

— Bill Gates

405. “If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.”

— Bill Gates

406. “I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.”

— Bill Gates

407. “Hey, size works against excellence.”

— Bill Gates

408. “A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.”

— Bill Gates

409. “I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.”

— Bill Gates

410. “Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and “intellectual bandwidth.””

— Bill Gates

411. “I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.”

— Bill Gates

412. “We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.”

— Bill Gates

413. “There’s life and death in every email.”

— Bill Gates

414. “Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.”

— Bill Gates

415. “I feel pretty stupid that I don’t know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.”

— Bill Gates

416. “When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.”

— Bill Gates

417. “The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the.”

— Bill Gates

418. “There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.”

— Bill Gates

419. “We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.”

— Bill Gates

420. “Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world’s enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share.”

— Bill Gates

421. “I am not a huge gamer. My son knows a LOT more than I do about what is cool on Xbox. I played Halo but the sports games that the whole family can use are the things I use the most. I threw the javelin very very far!”

— Bill Gates

422. “Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.”

— Bill Gates

423. “I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.”

— Bill Gates

424. “It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.”

— Bill Gates

425. “I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.”

— Bill Gates

426. “Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.”

— Bill Gates

427. “Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.”

— Bill Gates

428. “The ‘Billionaire’ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.”

— Bill Gates

429. “Microsoft’s philosophy is to ‘do things better.’ And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.”

— Bill Gates

430. “Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.”

— Bill Gates

431. “The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I’d rather go into a grocery store today than a king’s banquet a hundred years ago.”

— Bill Gates

432. “Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.”

— Bill Gates

433. “In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.”

— Bill Gates

434. “The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.”

— Bill Gates

435. “Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.”

— Bill Gates

436. “Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?”

— Bill Gates

437. “I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.”

— Bill Gates

438. “I didn’t completed my University Education.”

— Bill Gates

439. “I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.”

— Bill Gates

440. “Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.”

— Bill Gates

441. “The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.”

— Bill Gates

442. “Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.”

— Bill Gates

443. “Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC’s hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.”

— Bill Gates

444. “Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.”

— Bill Gates

445. “There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking.”

— Bill Gates

446. “Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future...”

— Bill Gates

447. “The tool that’s most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.”

— Bill Gates

448. “Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.”

— Bill Gates

449. “My guideline has always been to avoid a focus on me personally. Not because of any deep, dark secrets. Rather just a sense of privacy.”

— Bill Gates

450. “Being maniacal about something is very helpful.”

— Bill Gates