Top 500 Bill Gates Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There’s never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.”

— Bill Gates

402. “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

403. “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

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

— Bill Gates

405. “For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

407. “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

408. “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

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

— Bill Gates

410. “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

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

413. “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

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

— Bill Gates

415. “Hey, size works against excellence.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

418. “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

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

421. “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

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

— Bill Gates

423. “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

424. “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

425. “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

426. “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

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

— Bill Gates

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

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

— Bill Gates

431. “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

432. “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

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

— Bill Gates

434. “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

435. “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

436. “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

437. “If I think something’s a waste of time or inappropriate I don’t wait to point it out. I say it right away. It’s real time. So you might hear me say ‘That’s the dumbest idea I have ever heard’ many times during a meeting.”

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

440. “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

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

446. “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

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. “People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.”

— Bill Gates

449. “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

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

— Bill Gates