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
I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. — 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 you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration. — 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
In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you… — 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
No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO. — 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
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
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
The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In most companies, you don't get too much mail where people are saying, 'Hey, we lost this account.' But that's what you… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new… — 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
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions. — 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
Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does. — 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
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
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
Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees… — 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