Bill Gates

You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.

If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

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

(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone.

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.

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.

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

We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.

I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case.

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.

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 work.

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.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.