Quotes by Bill Gates

About Bill Gates:

William Henry is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. In 1975, Gates co-founded Microsoft, that became the world's largest PC software company, with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and co-authored several books.
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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.

Bill Gates

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.

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Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

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Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

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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.

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Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

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Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

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I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

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The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

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

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In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 pe...

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If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

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Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

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In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got thei...

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Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.

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The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their w...

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Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

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I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

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Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.

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If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.

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Author Bio

  • NameBill Gates
  • DescriptionAmerican business magnate and philanthropist
  • AliasesWilliam Gates; William Henry Gates III
  • BornOctober 28, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur; Programmer; Computer Scientist; Philanthropist; Inventor; Financier; Bridge Player; Investor
  • AwardsKnight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; National Medal Of Technology And Innovation; Padma Bhushan