222+Powerful and Famous Bill Gates Quotes(2022)Business, love, success, money etc…
POWERFUL AND FAMOUS BILL GATES QUOTES (2022)
1) ”Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.”
2) ”I am not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christinity are not something I am a huge believer in.”
3) ”There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.”
4) ”Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It’s much easier than roads and a great education system. It’s very basic. It’s one of the first things you want to get right.”
5) ”Vision without execution is daydreaming.”
6) ”Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.”
7) ”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 inefficiency.”
8) ”I don’t think you’re as capable of handling sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.”
9) ”The power of capitalism to meditate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think year by year, the gap gets less.”
10) ”There is more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.”
11) ”Stolen’s a strong word. It’s copyrighted content that the owner wasn’t paid for.”
12) ”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.”
13) ”If I will start all over again I would chose network marketing.”
14) ”I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.”
15) ”Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a ”nervous system”, to coordinate its actions.”
16) ”The first 5 years have so much to do with how the next 80 turns out.”
17) ”Certain teams are more careful in what they write. They generates less bugs. You can know that but it still doesn’t mean there might be there might be not be one bug that would be bad to ship the product with.”
18) ”Creativity allows people to be effective.”
19) ”Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
20) ”The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist.”
21) ”Our success has really been based on partnership from the very beginning.”
22) ”The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.”
23) ”Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We’ve never wasted from that vision.”
24) ”If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I would spend it on PR.”
25) ”Convert bad news to good news.”
26) ”I am results-oriented.”
27) ”How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.”
28) ”Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.”
29) ”The world needs banking but it does not need banks.”
30) ”The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.”
31) ”Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.”
32) ”The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.”
33) ”There will be two types of business in the next 5 years, those that are on the internet, and those that are out of business.”
34) ”Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”
35) ”Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.”
36) ”Patience is a key element of success
37) ”Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
38) ”If your are born poor it’snot your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.”
39) Life is not fair. Get used to it.”
40) ”To win big, you sometimes have to take big risk.”
41) ”Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
42) ”Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
43) ”I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
44) ”If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.”
45) ”Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
46) ”Only through focus can you do world class things, no matter how capable you are.”
47) ”I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”
48) ”Success is a lousy teacher, it seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
49) ”We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.”
50) ”DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”
51) ”I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we’re just getting started.”
52) ”An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.”
53) ”Software is more important than hardware.”
54) ”Life is a lot more fun if you treat it’s challenges in creative ways.”
55) ”Bridge is the king of all card games.”
56) ”I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one, And I am still fanatical, but now I am a little less fanatical.”
57) ”The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.”
58) ”Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.”
59) ”Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.”
60) ”I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.”
61) ”Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.”
62) ”Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.”
63) ”What I do best is share my enthusiasm.”
64) ”Everything on the internet is real good damm it!”
65) ”If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn’t matter how much we master the secrets of science. We’re not really solving problems, we’re just working on puzzles.”
66) ”Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren’t defeated by it. You’re learning from it.”
67) ”Power comes not from knowledge kept but from knowledge shared.”
68) ”Windows 95 was a nice milestone.”
69) ”In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.”
70) ”Don’t let complexity stop you.”
71) ”Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‘ tap dancing work’
72) ”I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.”
73) ”Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy. Be crazy.”
74) ”The term, information at your fingerprints, it to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It’s not a computation device, it’s not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It’s a window onto the world of information.”
75) ”Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to job.”
76) ”With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the internet and a world of opportunities.”
77) ”Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable,and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.”
78) ”Often you just have to rely on your intuition.”
79) ”Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.”
80) ”The micro-processor is a miracle.”
81) ”Effective Philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity-the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.’
82) ”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.”
83) ”Our teachers deserves better feedback.”
84) ”Training the workforce of tomorrow with today’s high schools is like trying to teach kids about today’s computers on a 50 years old machine.”
85) ”Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.”
86) ”Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.”
87) ”We will never make a 32- bit operating system.”
88) ”Analytics 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.”
89) ”For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of Malaria.”
90) ”The best teacher is very interactive.”
91) ”The CEO’s role in raising a company’s corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.”
92) ”I considered law and math. My dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in Physics if I didn’t end up in computer science.”
93) ”When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.”
94) ”I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.”
95) ”In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.”
96) ”Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don’t act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.”
97) ”You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines show us the way.”
98) ”This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.”
99) ”If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.”
100) ”Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.”
101) ”Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.”
102) ”The future of advertising is the internet.”
103) ”We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.”
104) ”Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.”
105) ”If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”
106) ”Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.”
107) ”I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we’re just getting started.”
108) ”I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.”
109) ”Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.”
110) ”Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.”
111)”Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.”
112) ”I spend a lot of time reading.”
113) ”I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.”
114) ”We’re all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.”
115)”The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.”
116) ”In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation’s future.”
117) ”Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.”
118) ”As I look forward, I am very optimistic about the things I see ahead.”
119) ”The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.”
120) ”By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.”
121) ”You’ve got to give great tool to small teams. Pick Good people, use small tools and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.”
122) ”I like to read general biology-things about the immune system and advances in that area-because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue.”
123) ”The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.”
124) ”Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.”
125) ”If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?”
126) ”The Gates foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn. Does your teacher use class time well> and, when you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out.”
127) ”Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.”
128) ”You can be a business thinker.”
129) ”In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don’t feel as bad about it as if it was someone else’s.”
130) ”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.”
131) ”This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It’s not just that the personal computer hs come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization of forcing companies to do things in new ways.”
132) ”In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.”
133) ”The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.”
134) ”The information highway will transfer our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg’s press did the Middle Ages.”
135) ”For one thing, there’s an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn’t matter if you have a perfect product, production plan and marketing pitch, you’ll still need the right people to lead and implement those plans.”
136) ”Rules broken today becomes norms tomorrow.”
137) ”I see little commercial potential for the internet for at least ten years.”
138) ”Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.”
139) ”If you rely too much on the people in the other countries and other companies, in a sense that’s your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.”
140) ”We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.”
141) ”Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.”
142) ”The antitrust thing will blow over.”
143) ”The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of poeple who see that better ways are available, thanks to technology.”
144) ”Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kid.”
145) ”The most important ‘Speed’ issue is often not technical but culture. It’s convincing everyone that the company’s survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible.”
146) ”The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.”
147) ”I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.”
148) ”Teaching hard, you need different skills; positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored commanding their attention in a certain way.”
149) ”When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.”
150) ”If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.”
151) ”Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can’t put numbers to it.And yet it’s the thing that defines the way we live, the things we’d like to have for everyone whether it’s health or education.”
152) ”We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.”
153) ”We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.”
154) ”My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care and the chance to go to school and even attend college.”
155) ”Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.”
156) ”If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.”
157) ”Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education and health.”
158) Life is not a continuous process, there’s some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.”
159) ”The job was to put into a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point basic and that’s one of the greatest programming feats I’ve ever had a chance to work on.”
160) ”Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.”
161) ”I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problems, I Think it can be solved.”
162) ”Success is a lousy teacher.”
163) ”Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.”
164) ”The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.”
165) ”The greatest thing you can do for your competition-hire poorly.”
166) ”Microsoft is always two years away from failure.”
167) ”The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that gives extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in the area.”
168) ”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.”
169) ”You will not make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.”
170) ”Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminates politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to be their own things.”
171) ”It’s the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.”
172) ”I am 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.”
173) ”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.”
174) ” I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.”
175) ”I have been waiting more that 30 years to say this; Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree, I want to thank Harvard For this honor. I’ll be changing my job next year and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.”
176) ”Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.”
177) ”Long term vision and product strategy.”
178)”Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.”
179) ”Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.”
180) ”The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will except you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.”
181) ”It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government consideration.”
182) ”If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.”
183) ”You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses.”
184) ”Every day were saying, ”how can we keep this customer happy?” How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don’t, somebody else will.”
185) ”I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problem.”
186) ”I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.”
187) ”My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.”
188) ”Computers and games don’t waste time-people do.”
189) ”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.”
190) ”Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.”
191) ”Humanity’s greatest advances are not in it’s discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.”
192) ”Bitcoin is a technological tour de force.”
193) ”A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.”
194)”If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”
195) ”Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.”
196) ”Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640K of ram?”
197) ”Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.”
198) ”You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.”
199) ”Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.”
200) ”Investing in tomorrow’a technology today is more critical than ever.”
201) ”Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.”
202) ”Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.”
203) ”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.”
204) ”Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”
205) ”I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.”
206) ”The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.”
207) ”Legacy is a stupid thing, I don’t want a legacy.”
208) ”Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company’s ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.”
209) ”Common core is a big win for education.”
210) ”While we’re all very dependent on technology. It doesn’t always work.”
211) ”The internet is just a passing fad.”
212) ”And knowledge management is a means, not an end.”
213) ”I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.”
214) ”The ability of a successful company to add functionally to it’s product has long been upheld.”
215) ”There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.”
216) ”The future of windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.”
217) ”If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves, this can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.”
218) ”Even though I only have a high school degree, I am a professional student.”
219) ”If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.”
220) ”I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.”
221) ”The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening.”
222) ”People everywhere loves windows.”
223) ”The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It’s science that people want to work on.”
224) ”Two out of every five people on earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.”
225) ”Innovation is a good thing. The human condition-put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes-is improving because of innovation.”
226) ”Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.”
227) ”If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it’s good. It starts to balance out.”
228) ”We’re at the point now where the challenge isn’t how to communicate effectively with e-mail, it’s ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.”
229) ”Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headlines, and gradual improvement is not.”
230) ”When I was in college, for the games of that era, I was as hard core as anyone was. I wouldn’t say I outgrew it, but you always have to have a finite of addiction.”
231) ”I don’t generally read a lot of fiction.”
232) ”Philanthropy is fun and fulfilling.”
233) ”When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.”
234) ”I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.”
235)”I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.”
236) ”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.”
237) ”Like human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a ”nervous system”, to coordinate its actions.”
238) ”Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for me.”
239) ”It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
240) ”As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
241) ”If your business is not on the internet, then your business will be out of business.”
242) ”People cannot become truly knowledgeable without excellent readers.”
243) ”If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get you get the boss.”
244) ”I work hard, because I love my work.”
245) ”We are changing the world with technology.”
246) ”Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.”
247) ”Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react and reinvent.”
248) ”I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goals is to improve myself continuously.”
249) ”A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten microsoft.”
250) ”To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and take emergencies.”
251) ”I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.”
252) ”I am not the topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.”
