Bill Gates quotes

Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software developer, and philanthropist, best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. His innovations helped revolutionize personal computing and profoundly shaped the modern technology landscape. He now focuses on global health, education, and humanitarian causes through his philanthropic foundation. Here are 515 of his quotes:

Choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Bill Gates

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Bill Gates

Life is not fair; get used to it.

Bill Gates

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Bill Gates

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Bill Gates

There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business.

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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.

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

Bill Gates

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

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To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Bill Gates

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

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It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.

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Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for.

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Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

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We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

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I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

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The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

Bill Gates

The best way to prepare to be a programmer is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.

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When you have money in hand, only you forget who are you. But when you do not have any money in your hand, the whole world forget who you are. It's life.

Bill Gates

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.

Bill Gates