Quotes By Bill Gates

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.

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.

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

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

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.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

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.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

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

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.

I spend a lot of time reading.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

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 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.

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.

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

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

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

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

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

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.

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.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

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.