It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It's fantastic that Microsoft in the cloud space is one of very few companies that's got the critical mass, the particular emphasis… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have… — Bill Gates Copy Share
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the… — Bill Gates Copy Share
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. — Bill Gates Copy Share
We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that… — Bill Gates Copy Share
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting… — Bill Gates Copy Share
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering. — Bill Gates Copy Share
Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great. — Bill Gates Copy Share
Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate… — Bill Gates Copy Share
Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all.… — Bill Gates Copy Share
Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. — Bill Gates Copy Share
I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share
At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to… — Bill Gates Copy Share
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. — Bill Gates Copy Share
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