59 Bill Gates Quotes and Sayings

Bill Gates is one of the most successful and richest men in the world. Here are best Bill Gates Quotes and sayings that will make you think in life.

Bill Gates Quotes

1. “If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.” – Bill Gates

2. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates

3. “If you think your teacher is tough, wait ’til you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.” – Bill Gates

4. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates

5. “Life isn’t hard; just find easier ways to get hard things done.”– Bill Gates
6. “To win big, You sometimes have to take big risks.” – Bill Gates
7. “The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.” – Bill Gates
8. “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
9. “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” – Bill Gates
10. “The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.”– Bill Gates

Famous Bill Gates Quotes

11. “If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.” – Bill Gates
12. “Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.” – Bill Gates
13. “Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.” – Bill Gates
14. “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
15. “Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”– Bill Gates
16. “There’s always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It’s long since passed that a typical person doesn’t leave footprints.” – Bill Gates
17. “Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.” – Bill Gates
18. “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?” – Bill Gates
19. “Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risks.” – Bill Gates
20. “In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance…… you thrive on that.” – Bill Gates

Bill Gates Success Quotes

21. “Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.”– Bill Gates
22. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates
23. “If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.” – Bill Gates
24. “Patience is a key element of success.” – Bill Gates
25. “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.” – Bill Gates
26. “I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.”– Bill Gates
27. “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
28. “I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job… because he will find an easy way to do it.”– Bill Gates
29. “Rules your children did not and will not learn in school.” – Bill Gates
30. “I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my Microsoft Company.” – Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes

31. “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
32. “Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.” – Bill Gates
33. “Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.” – Bill Gates
34. “We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.” – Bill Gates
35. “I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.” – Bill Gates
36. “Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.” – Bill Gates
37. “I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence.” – Bill Gates
38. “I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.” – Bill Gates
39. “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”– Bill Gates
40. “Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.” – Bill Gates

Quotes by Bill Gates

41. “The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.” – Bill Gates
42. “Life is not fair get, used to it!” – Bill Gates
43. “People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?” – Bill Gates
44. “I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’.” – Bill Gates
45. “Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world…. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.” – Bill Gates
46. “Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.” – Bill Gates
47. “Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.” – Bill Gates
48. “Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.” – Bill Gates
49. “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.’” – Bill Gates
50. “We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.” – Bill Gates

Inspirational Bill Gates Quotes

51. “The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.” – Bill Gates
52. “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.” – Bill Gates
53. “Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.” – Bill Gates
54. “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.” – Bill Gates
55. “Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.” – Bill Gates
56. “Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.”– Bill Gates
57. “We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.” – Bill Gates
58. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates
59. “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