Thinking Quotes by Bill Gates

It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.

— Bill Gates

I think of myself as a global citizen.

— Bill Gates

I don't think culture is something you can describe.

— Bill Gates

Information work is thinking work.

— Bill Gates

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

— Bill Gates

To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.

— Bill Gates

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

— Bill Gates

I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

— Bill Gates

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

— Bill Gates

Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

— Bill Gates

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing.

— Bill Gates

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I…

— Bill Gates

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

— Bill Gates

We need to start thinking about the Future of Food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way…

— Bill Gates

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a…

— Bill Gates

I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer…

— Bill Gates

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I…

— Bill Gates

Thinking about impact on children meant adding to the agenda, both the R&D agenda and the delivery agenda, but it's amazing news,…

— Bill Gates

I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda…

— Bill Gates

If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role…

— Bill Gates

My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided…

— Bill Gates

I am surprised that in various countries, whether it's the U.K. or the U.S., you see isolationist tendencies that would tend to…

— Bill Gates

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation,…

— Bill Gates

I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending…

— Bill Gates

I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical…

— 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

The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich…

— Bill Gates

I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that's…

— Bill Gates

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs,…

— Bill Gates

By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that…

— Bill Gates

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

— Bill Gates

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

— Bill Gates

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

— Bill Gates

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

— Bill Gates

I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.

— Bill Gates

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of…

— Bill Gates

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

— Bill Gates

We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems

— 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

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