205+ Bill Gates Quotes About Success, Inspiration, Business, Technology, Etc

Here we have compiled a list of 206 inspirational quotes and sayings about public issues success, inspiration, technology, business, and education by Gates Quotes.

The founder of Microsoft and most famous personality all around the world, William Henry Gates, is an American business tycoon, software developer, investor, philanthropist, and author. He is considered the best entrepreneur of the microcomputer revolution.

He has been included in the Forbes list of the wealthiest people worldwide since 1987 retain a top position for many years, now he is in 4th.

Moreover, he is the founder and chairman of several companies, including BEN, Cascade Investment, bgC3, and Terra Power.

The down-to-earth Bill Gates is also known for his social works; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the world’s largest private charity.

We hope you’ll love to read these 206 exciting and famous Bill Gates quote about public issues, success, inspiration, tech, business, education.

Bill Gates Quotes About Public Issues

“I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.” — Bill Gates
“It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.” — Bill Gates
“For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.” — Bill Gates
“The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.” — Bill Gates
“I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.” — Bill Gates
“The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It’s science that people want to work on.” — Bill Gates
“I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.” — Bill Gates
“Africa is on the rise.” — Bill Gates
“According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.” — Bill Gates
“Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.” — Bill Gates
“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
“If you are born poor, it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor, it’s your mistake.” — Bill Gates
“We need to start thinking about the Future of Food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.” — Bill Gates
“Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.” — Bill Gates
“We’re all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.” — Bill Gates
“The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.” — Bill Gates
“Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.” — Bill Gates
“Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.” — Bill Gates
“As for drugs – well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice…” — Bill Gates
“The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.” — Bill Gates
“Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.” — Bill Gates
“Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.” — Bill Gates
“I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.” — Bill Gates
“There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.” — Bill Gates
“In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.” — Bill Gates
“Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.” — Bill Gates
“The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.” — Bill Gates
“K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.” — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes About Success & Education

“Patience is a key element of success.” — Bill Gates
“Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.” — Bill Gates
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” — Bill Gates
“The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.” — Bill Gates
“My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.” — Bill Gates
“Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.” — Bill Gates
“It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” — Bill Gates
“If I only had two dollars left, I would spend one dollar on PR.” — Bill Gates
“Long-term vision and product strategy.” — Bill Gates
“How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.” — Bill Gates
“Reward worthy failure – Experimentation.” — Bill Gates
“It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they’ve had good educational institutions, and they’ve had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.” — Bill Gates
“Even though I only have a high-school degree, I’m a professional student.” — Bill Gates
“If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.” — Bill Gates
“Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It’s much easier than roads and a great education system. It’s very basic. It’s one of the first things you want to get right.” — Bill Gates
“When I was in college, for the games of that era, I was as hardcore as anyone was. I wouldn’t say I outgrew it, but you always have to have a finite number of addictions.” — Bill Gates
“Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.” — Bill Gates
“Often you just have to rely on your intuition.” — Bill Gates
“Our teachers deserve better feedback.” — Bill Gates
“Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.” — Bill Gates
“Training the workforce of tomorrow with today’s high schools is like trying to teach kids about today’s computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.” — Bill Gates
“Common Core is a big win for education.” — Bill Gates
“If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.” — Bill Gates
“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
“You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.” — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Inspirational Quotes

“Don’t let complexity stop you.” — Bill Gates
“Creativity allows people to be effective.” — Bill Gates
“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.” — Bill Gates
“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.” — Bill Gates
“The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition is to do an outstanding job with information.” — Bill Gates
“Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.” — Bill Gates
“I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.” — Bill Gates
“Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.” — Bill Gates
“Leaders are those who empower others.” — Bill Gates
“Life is not fair. Get used to it.” — Bill Gates
“I am not topper in my university, but all toppers are working in my Microsoft company.” — Bill Gates
“To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.” — Bill Gates
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” — Bill Gates
“I get more spam than anyone I know.” — Bill Gates
“Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a “nervous system,” to coordinate its actions.” — Bill Gates
“If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.” — Bill Gates
“Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.” — Bill Gates
“I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.” — Bill Gates
“Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.” — Bill Gates
“I am results-oriented.” — Bill Gates
“Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.” — Bill Gates
“I don’t generally read a lot of fiction.” — Bill Gates
“Philanthropy is fun and fulfilling.” — Bill Gates
“I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.” — Bill Gates
“Stolen’s a strong word. It’s copyrighted content that the owner wasn’t paid for.” — Bill Gates
“Well, private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.” — Bill Gates
“The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.” — Bill Gates
“Two years from now, spam will be solved.” — Bill Gates
“Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.” — Bill Gates
“When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.” — Bill Gates
“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” — Bill Gates
“I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.” — Bill Gates
“If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.” — Bill Gates
“Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.” — Bill Gates
“And knowledge management is a means, not an end.” — Bill Gates
“The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening.” — Bill Gates
“Vision without execution is daydreaming.” — Bill Gates
“I work hard because I love my work.” — Bill Gates
“In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.” — Bill Gates
“I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.” — Bill Gates
“My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A’s. I decided to get straight A’s. I didn’t want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A’s once; it’s easier.” — Bill Gates
“The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.” — Bill Gates
“I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he’s got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.” — Bill Gates
“Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.” — Bill Gates
“Microsoft is always two years away from failure.” — Bill Gates
“There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.” — Bill Gates
“Convert bad news to good news.” — Bill Gates
“I don’t think you’re as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.” — Bill Gates
“I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.” — Bill Gates
“You can make money, and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses.” — Bill Gates
“The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.” — Bill Gates
“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.” — Bill Gates
“Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well-motivated individual.” — Bill Gates
“I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research, and you learn the basic facts.” — Bill Gates
“If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving, and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving”.” — Bill Gates
“I spend a lot of time reading.” — Bill Gates
“Look at the clock when you are sitting idle. But never look at the clock when you are working.” — Bill Gates
“Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.” — Bill Gates
“I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.” — Bill Gates
“I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions, they will be moved to act.” — Bill Gates
“I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we’re just getting started.” — Bill Gates
“People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.” — Bill Gates
“Depending on where you live, cooking, sex, and pooping are either 3 of life’s pleasures or what kills you.” — Bill Gates
“If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it’s good. It starts to balance out.” — Bill Gates
“Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.” — Bill Gates
“Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.” — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes About Business & Technology

“There will be two types of businesses in the next five years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business.” — Bill Gates
“A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.” — Bill Gates
“Every day were saying, ‘How can we keep this customer happy?’ How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don’t, somebody else will.” — Bill Gates
“Customers want high quality at low prices, and they want it now.” — Bill Gates
“Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.” — Bill Gates
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates
“You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.” — Bill Gates
“This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world because business is going to change more in the next ten years than it has in the last 50.” — Bill Gates
“We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.” — Bill Gates
“The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.” — Bill Gates
“A company’s ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad, is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.” — Bill Gates
“Customer service will become the primary value-added function of every business.” — Bill Gates
“An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.” — Bill Gates
“If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.” — Bill Gates
“Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company’s ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.” — Bill Gates
“If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget, I’d spend it on PR!” — Bill Gates
“A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is, and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.” — Bill Gates
“I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.” — Bill Gates
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” — Bill Gates
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” — Bill Gates
“If I will start all over again, I would choose network marketing.” — Bill Gates
“The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.” — Bill Gates
“I’m an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.” — Bill Gates
“Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.” — Bill Gates
“Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.” — Bill Gates
“In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.” — Bill Gates
“Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.” — Bill Gates
“If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.” — Bill Gates
“The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.” — Bill Gates
“We’re changing the world with technology.” — Bill Gates
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” — Bill Gates
“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.” — Bill Gates
“A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsoft’s.” — Bill Gates
“To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.” — Bill Gates
“Banking is necessary – banks are not.” — Bill Gates
“Software is more important than hardware.” — Bill Gates
“Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?” — Bill Gates
“Investing in tomorrow’s technology today is more critical than ever…” — Bill Gates
“The future of advertising is the Internet.” — Bill Gates
“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
“Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.” — Bill Gates
“Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” — Bill Gates
“While we’re all very dependent on technology, it doesn’t always work.” — Bill Gates
“It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas while respecting legitimate government considerations.” — Bill Gates
“The internet is just a passing fad.” — Bill Gates
“There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.” — Bill Gates
“The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.” — Bill Gates
“There’s nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.” — Bill Gates
“If you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so, you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.” — Bill Gates
“People everywhere love Windows.” — Bill Gates
“We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.” — Bill Gates
“We’re at the point now where the challenge isn’t how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it’s ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.” — Bill Gates
“3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we’re getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we’ve ever had before.” — Bill Gates
“Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.” — 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
“No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.” — Bill Gates
“The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.” — Bill Gates
“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.” — Bill Gates
“The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.” — Bill Gates
“Certain teams are more careful in what they write. They generate less bugs. You can know that, but it still doesn’t mean there might be there might not be one bug that would be bad to ship the product with.” — Bill Gates
“Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk and in every home. We’ve never wavered from that vision.” — Bill Gates
“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
“Bitcoin is a technological tour de force.” — Bill Gates
“Computers and games don’t waste time – people do.” — Bill Gates
“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.” — Bill Gates
“No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer.” — Bill Gates
“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.” — Bill Gates
“Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.” — Bill Gates
“Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done, it is like a part of yourself that you’ve put together. I think a lot of the people here feel that way.” — Bill Gates
“Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.” — Bill Gates
“Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.” — Bill Gates
“The Internet? We are not interested in it.” — Bill Gates
“The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.” — Bill Gates
“Certainly, there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.” — Bill Gates
“Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.” — Bill Gates
“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?” — Bill Gates
“You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines show us the way.” — Bill Gates
“Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you’ll see someone else’s program or somebody will come along, and they’ll show you what can be done in a simpler way.” — Bill Gates
“The microprocessor is a miracle.” — Bill Gates
“Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.” — Bill Gates
“Windows 95 was a nice milestone.” — Bill Gates
“Everything on the internet is real god damn it!” — Bill Gates
“It’s really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.” — Bill Gates
“Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.” — Bill Gates
“We will never make a 32-bit operating system.” — Bill Gates
“I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn’t end up in computer science.” — Bill Gates
“The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It’s not a computation device; it’s not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It’s a window onto the world of information.” — Bill Gates

How can I contact Bill Gates directly?

Like any other famous personality, keeping it in your mind isn’t easy and quick to contact Mr. Gates. However, there are some ways through which you can reach him. Okay, if you want to send him a business proposal or any other formal requests, you can mail a letter to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s address (PO Box 23350, Seattle, WA, 98102).

The other ways are to contact Gates directly on his social media accounts. If you want to ask something publicly, there’s nothing so best than Twitter. You can simply use the handle @BillGates to mention him in your tweet. Probably, if your query will be worth catching, you definitely get a response.

Second, you can connect with him on LinkedIn, where you can message him personally. Lastly, the third way is to message Bill Gates on Instagram; also, you can comment your query on his picture. However, the chances of getting a response depending on your question, so make sure to ask or propose something unique.

Can I write a letter to Bill Gates?

It isn’t possible to write directly to Bill Gates. But you can write to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. You can mail them your query directly to this foundation. However, if your question is serious and exciting, you’ll get the answer as we’ve explained above.

How much does Bill Gates make a day?

Approximately every hour $411.000 adds to his account, and every minute his bank account shows a plus of $6850. Similarly, every single second of the day, Bill Gates makes $114.