Bill Gates Quotes
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The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.
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If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
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Success is a lousy teacher.
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I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.
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The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.
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I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.
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Your customers get better when you do.
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I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
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The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
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I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.
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Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company...
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The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.
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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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Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.
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Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.
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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
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There's life and death in every email.
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I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.
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The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.
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Learn from your unhappy customers.
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Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.
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Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
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I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
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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.