Bill Gates Quotes

“Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.”

“The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact, I would have said we should more than double it, if I thought the absorptive capacity could scale up and if it was actually possible to get to that level.”

“Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.”

“Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.”

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

“Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.”

“We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies."”

“Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.”

“You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.”

“Often you just have to rely on your intuition.”

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

“If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing.”

“There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.”

“Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.”

“See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success”

“Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.”

“I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.”

“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.”

“Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.”

“Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.”

“I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.”

“Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.”

“R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves and the world and our economy have been very, very clear. I'm hopeful we can make a very strong case there. Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.”

“You can be a business thinker.”

“I don't think culture is something you can describe.”