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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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.
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We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
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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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Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.
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Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.
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Today, the issue isn’t quantity of food as much as it is quality-whether kids are getting enough protein and other nutrients to fully develop.
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Warren Buffett met with all sorts of different groups about a lot of different things, but yes, he took the time, he listened and he wanted to understand about some of the different diseases and the strength of the American role in doing all these things.
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While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.
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The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.
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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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The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help. And so we look away.
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I believe in generous aid policies.
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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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The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine.
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The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.
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Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.
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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 have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.
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We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.
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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.
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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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Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.
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Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.