Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It starts to balance out. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics. — 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
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
Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Now, if you're rich, you can spend a lot of money, Netherlands-style, and reduce that. But Bangladesh or parts of India, like… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes ... Money has no utility to me beyond a certain… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
For all these infectious diseases, the goal is to eventually get rid of them. And to do that we need to invent… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I don't believe in creating dynastic wealth. I don't really believe that in a society that aspires to be meritocratic and that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We're creating this alliance, GAVI, that has helped buy the vaccines that were in the rich world but not getting to the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. — 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
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
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to… — 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
When you have in money in hand, only you forget who are you. But when you do not have any money in… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand,the… — 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
