Explore Quotes by 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.

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.

Make it just like a Mac.

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

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

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.

Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.

Bridge is the king of all card games.

If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.

I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

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.

Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.

Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.