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.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Business
I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Communication
Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries—but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.
—Bill Gates
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
—Bill Gates
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I’m your man.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Food
I find golf very relaxing. It’s a way to get away from work and get outside. It’s a lot of fun, and once you get going it’s almost kind of addictive.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Golf
My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Focus
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Television
Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Entrepreneurs
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Technology
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Property
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 50
—Bill Gates
Topics: Miscellaneous, Forgiveness, Business
You need to know about customer feedback that says things should be better.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Feedback, Customers
The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Power, Work, Giving, Vision
My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Jobs
Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Innovation
Life is not fair; get used to it.
—Bill Gates
If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Ability
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Business, Entrepreneurs, Unhappiness, Adversity, Customers
Often you just have to rely on your intuition.
—Bill Gates
Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Customers, Neighbors
Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn’t try to make every decision.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Leadership
This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It’s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.
—Bill Gates
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Chance
There’s a basic philosophy here that by empowering…workers you’ll make their jobs far more interesting, and they’ll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.
—Bill Gates
If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Health
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.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Dreams
I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. We can someday replicate that on a machine. Earthly life is carbon based and computers are
—Bill Gates
Topics: Intelligence, Computers
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 binary fashion.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Computers, Intelligence
The frontiers were sort of wide open. It was that sense of excitement that we really wanted to spark in everybody else wherever we went.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Excitement
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