The quotations of

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist

born 1955

13 quotes, most often on Business. Part of the Entrepreneurs collection.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Business @ The Speed of Thought (1999)
- Business
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
The Road Ahead (1995)
- Success
Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC’s hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.
- Computers
Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
- Education
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
- Leadership
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.
“In Search of the Real Bill Gates,” Time (13 January 1997)
- Anti-Religion
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.
- Change
- Time
In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
- Business
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
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.
- Business
- Technology
I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.
- Intelligence
When it comes to climate change, I know innovation isn’t the only thing we need. But we cannot keep the earth livable without it. Techno-fixes are not sufficient, but they are necessary.
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (2021)
- Nature
- Science
If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes.
“The next outbreak? We’re not ready”, TED talk (3 April 2015)
- Health
- War & Peace

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