Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company — 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
We bet the company on Windows and we deserve to benefit. It was a risk that's paid off immensely. In retrospect, committing… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change. — 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
If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley. — 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
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
A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything. — 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
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
This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as… — 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
I never would have predicted it. I didn't set out to achieve some level of wealth or size of company. I remember… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Certainly, we are trying to preserve all of that culture, and get the advantages of being a large company with a broad… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded. — 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
It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. — 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