All Bill Gates Quotes
- Philanthropy should be voluntary. Inspirational
- The best teacher is very interactive. Best
- In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. Business
- Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. Building
- We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. Future
- Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American… American
- The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its… Breakthrough
- Often you just have to rely on your intuition. Advice
- My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things. Few
- Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in… All
- What I do best is share my enthusiasm. Best
- Microsoft is a company that manages imagination. Company
- Whatever they announce, they announce. They're in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype ... They will obviously branch out beyond Internet search,… Announce
- There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of. Get Rich
- We will never make a 32-bit operating system. Bit
- The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people. Been
- I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government. Along
- I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids. Family
- Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took… All
- I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather… Agree
- I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes ... Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility… Beyond
- You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the… Attention
- Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that. Clear
- You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if… All
- It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. Compete