Entrepreneur and businessman Bill Gates (born October 28, 1955) and his partner Paul Allen founded and built the world's largest software business, Microsoft, through technological innovation, keen business strategy and aggressive business tactics.
In the process, Gates became one of the richest men in the world.
In February 2014, Gates announced that he was stepping down as Microsoft's chairman to focus on charitable work at his foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bill Gates Quotes
Here are Bill Gates Motivational & Inspirational quotes:
Life is not fair get used to it.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.
If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.
Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
Patience is a key element of success.
Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together & motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
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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This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last.
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
I spend a lot of time reading.
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.
People everywhere love Windows.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
I believe that if you show people the problems & you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.