Bill Gates Quotes

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates

Success, Teacher, Smart

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Bill Gates

Nice, End, Working

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates

Failure, Success, Important

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Bill Gates

Teacher, Tough, Wait

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

Communication, Great, Learn

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Bill Gates

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.
Bill Gates

Technology, Business, Used

Life is not fair; get used to it.
Bill Gates

Life, Used, Fair

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Bill Gates

Problems, Show, Act

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates

Technology, Teacher, Important

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates

Learning, Greatest, Unhappy

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates

Others, Next, Leaders

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.
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Computers, Creativity, Become

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
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Car, Technology, Cars

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.
Bill Gates

Religion, Time, Morning

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates

Business, Technology, Talk

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.
Bill Gates

Change, Yourself, Two

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

Dreams, Great, Chance

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?
Bill Gates

Life, Money, Mean

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates

Change, Time, Fear

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Bill Gates

Life, Real, Coffee

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates

Afraid, Ideas, Quite

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates

Enough, Anybody, Ought

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

Time, Business, Yourself

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
Bill Gates

Today, Energy, Almost

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Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: October 28, 1955

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