Quotes by Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Bill Gates

American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist

Lived from: 1955 -

Category: Business and entrepreneurs Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 28 october 1955

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  • If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
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  • If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
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  • If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.
    At Live8 (2 July 2005) as reported in BBC News (4 July 2005)
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  • If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
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  • In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
    PBS interview with David Frost (November 1995)
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  • In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
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  • Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
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  • Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.
    Comment to reporters during the IBM PC launch
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  • Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
    The Wall Street Journal (29-12-2011)
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  • It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007
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  • It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
    USAir Magazine, "Bill Gates: The Importance of Making Mistakes", July 1995, p. 48
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  • It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
    Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz in 80 Microcomputing
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  • It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
    TIME magazine Vol. 149, No. 2 (13 January 1997)
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  • Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
    TIME magazine Vol. 149, No. 2 (13 January 1997)
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  • Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
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  • Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
    "Why I Hate Spam" by Bill Gates, June 23 2003, www.microsoft.com/presspass/ofnote/06-23wsjspam.mspx
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  • Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.
    Speech at the Computer History Museum, as quoted in InfoWorld magazine (October 2001)
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  • Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
    "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
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  • Often you have to rely on intuition.
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  • People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
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