Business Quotes by Bill Gates

Change the boundaries of business.

— Bill Gates

Make it just like a Mac.

— Bill Gates

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

— Bill Gates

You can be a business thinker.

— Bill Gates

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

— Bill Gates

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

— Bill Gates

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

— Bill Gates

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

— Bill Gates

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

— Bill Gates

The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening.

— Bill Gates

Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.

— Bill Gates

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

— Bill Gates

Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.

— Bill Gates

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

There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are…

— Bill Gates

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

— Bill Gates

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to…

— Bill Gates

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

Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

— Bill Gates

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

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

— Bill Gates

If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for…

— Bill Gates

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

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

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

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to…

— Bill Gates

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.…

— Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff…

— Bill Gates

For one thing, there's an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn't matter if you have a perfect product, production…

— Bill Gates

The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for…

— Bill Gates

Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in…

— Bill Gates

I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the…

— Bill Gates

Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail…

— Bill Gates

As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a…

— Bill Gates

...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was…

— Bill Gates

The digital decade is not just about any particular aspect of computing, taking enterprises, knowledge workers and homes and building standards that…

— Bill Gates

One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much…

— Bill Gates

Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.

— Bill Gates

Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

— Bill Gates

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

— Bill Gates