Bill Gates

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."
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"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
"I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in."
Bill Gates
"I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool."
Bill Gates
"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
Bill Gates
"My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria."
Bill Gates
"When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have."
Bill Gates
"If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?"
Bill Gates
"Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires."
Bill Gates
"This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50."
Bill Gates
"The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same."
Bill Gates
"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
Bill Gates
"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."
Bill Gates
"In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that."
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
"Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride."
Bill Gates
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
Bill Gates
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
Bill Gates
"DON'T COMPARE YOURSELF WITH ANYONE IN THIS WORLD... IF U DO SO U R INSULTING YOURSELF"
Bill Gates
"The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent."
Bill Gates
"Life is not fair, get used to it"
Bill Gates
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