Company Quotes by Bill Gates

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

— 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

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Bill Gates

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

— Bill Gates

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

— Bill Gates

Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.

— 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

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

— Bill Gates

Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees…

— 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

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

— Bill Gates

The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have…

— Bill Gates

An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.

— 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

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

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd…

— Bill Gates

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

We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll…

— Bill Gates

In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that…

— Bill Gates

The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that…

— Bill Gates

Certainly, we are trying to preserve all of that culture, and get the advantages of being a large company with a broad…

— 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

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

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

— 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

Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led…

— 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

I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in.

— Bill Gates

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

— Bill Gates

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

— Bill Gates

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

— Bill Gates

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the…

— Bill Gates

The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

— Bill Gates

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or…

— Bill Gates

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little…

— Bill Gates

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

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