Bill Gates quotes

Bill Gates, a renowned American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, has revolutionized the technology industry. Co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, Gates played a pivotal role in shaping the modern computing world. His visionary leadership and innovative ideas propelled Microsoft to unparalleled success. With a net worth of billions, Gates is one of the wealthiest individuals globally. Beyond business, he is also recognized for his philanthropy through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, addressing global issues such as poverty and healthcare. Discover more about the remarkable life and achievements of Bill Gates here.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

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

- Bill Gates

Power comes not from knowledge kept but from knowledge shared.

- Bill Gates

Patience is a key element of success.

- Bill Gates

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

- Bill Gates

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

- Bill Gates

Life's not fair, get over it!

- Bill Gates

In China when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you.

- Bill Gates

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

- Bill Gates

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Bill Gates

Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world... If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

- Bill Gates

Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risk.

- Bill Gates

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

- Bill Gates

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?

- Bill Gates

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

- Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

- Bill Gates

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

- Bill Gates

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

- Bill Gates

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

- Bill Gates

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

- Bill Gates

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

- Bill Gates

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

- Bill Gates

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

- Bill Gates

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

- Bill Gates

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

- Bill Gates

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

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

- Bill Gates

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

- Bill Gates