The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. — 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
If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating. — 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
Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
People in business understand paying money to be more efficient. You can bootstrap markets where the devices are too expensive at first… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd… — 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
I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market… — 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
Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends. — 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
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? — 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
It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10… — 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 Image
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 Image
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
