Bill Gates Quotes
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Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
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Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.
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Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.
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Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
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The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.
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I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.
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I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.
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Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
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If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.
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I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.
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I believe in generous aid policies.
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Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.
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Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
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The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.
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I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
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By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient. You might think that such striking progress would be widely celebrated, but in fact, Melinda and I are struck by how many people think the world is getting worse. The belief that the world can’t solve extreme poverty and disease isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful. That’s why in this year’s letter we take apart some of the myths that slow down the work. The next time you hear these myths, we hope you will do the same.
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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.
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When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.
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The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning
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When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?
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There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.
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Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
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We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.
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Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.