Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Work
Smart is an elusive concept. There’s a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Creativity
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Authority
Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Entrepreneurs
There’s a basic philosophy here that by empowering…workers you’ll make their jobs far more interesting, and they’ll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.
—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
Topics: Customers, Neighbors
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I’m your man.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Food
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Computers
The Internet will help achieve “friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Capitalism
Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries—but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.
—Bill Gates
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
—Bill Gates
Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn’t try to make every decision.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Leadership
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Property
Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Innovation
You need to know about customer feedback that says things should be better.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Feedback, Customers
If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Health
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Unhappiness, Entrepreneurs, Customers, Business, Adversity
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
Topics: Religion
Often you just have to rely on your intuition.
—Bill Gates
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.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Intelligence, Computers
This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It’s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.
—Bill Gates
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50
—Bill Gates
Topics: Forgiveness, Business, Miscellaneous
If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Ability
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
Topics: Will, Business, Sin
I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Communication
I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. We can someday replicate that on a machine. Earthly life is carbon based and computers are
—Bill Gates
Topics: Intelligence, Computers
My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Jobs
My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Focus
What I do best is share my enthusiasm.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Enthusiasm
The frontiers were sort of wide open. It was that sense of excitement that we really wanted to spark in everybody else wherever we went.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Excitement
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