Bill Gates Quotes About Dreams, Technology, Leadership and Success
Bill Gates is an American business tycoon, software developer, investor and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. Gates co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen in 1975, in Albuquerque, New Mexico; it went on to become the world’s largest personal computer software company. He is one of the best-known entrepreneurs and pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.
1. Since 1987 he has been included in the Forbes List of the World’s Wealthiest People.
2. From 1995 to 2017, he held the Forbes title of the richest person in the world all but four years.
3. Later in his career and since leaving day to day operations at Microsoft in 2008, Gates pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors.
4. He donated large amount of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Gates Foundation.
5. In 2009, Gates and Warren Buffet founded the Giving Pledge, whereby they and other billionaires pledge to give at least half of their wealth to philanthropy.
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.
Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world; if you do so, you are insulting yourself.
We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
Don’t make the same decision twice. Spend time and thought to make a solid decision the first time so that you don’t revisit the issue unnecessarily.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Life is not fair — get used to it!
The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
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I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Patience is a key element of success.
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.
If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was satisfactory, I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?
It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.
Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‘tap-dancing to work.
Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
If you give people tools, and they use their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.
I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
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.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.
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.
If geek means you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.
I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one’s children. It’s not constructive for them.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
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.
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