If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR! — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We need to start thinking about the Future of Food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
People think about this idea that there's 122 million kids that are alive that would not be if that fatality rate had… — 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
If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you really could take the CO2, when you burn hydrocarbons - coal, for example - if you could really capture the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The media covers what's new - and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it's… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away.… — 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
If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
[Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The most straightforward path would be if we could bring the cost of solar electric and wind down by another factor of… — 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
If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do! — 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
Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at… — 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
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
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. — Bill Gates Copy Share
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
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
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
Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great. — Bill Gates Copy Share
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
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
Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. — Bill Gates Copy Share
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
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
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
![“[Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend…” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af5/bill-gates-137_care_melinda-gates-is-a-lot-of-fun-to-work-wi_1189669.jpg)
