Thoughts by Bill Gates Quotes in English

Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

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.

The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is, and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don’t just think, yes my country is doing well, but you think about the world at large.

If I had to say what is the thing that I feel best about, it's being involved in this whole software revolution and what comes out of that, because you can go all over the world and go into schools and see these computers being used and go into hospitals and see them being used, and see how they're tools for sharing information that hopefully leads to more peaceful conditions, and just the great research advances that come out of that.

Don't make the same decision twice. Spend time and thought to make a solid decision the first time so that you don't revisit the issue unnecessarily. If you're too willing to reopen issues, it interferes not only with your execution but also with your motivation to make a decision in the first place. After all, why bother deciding an issue if it isn't really decided?

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?

Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.

Life has a tendency to just happen. But it happens because we make choices. The life you create and design for yourself is going to accumulate from the choices you make over time. Sure, there are unexpected things that can derail dreams. But we can control where we put our focus, and if we choose to put one dream ahead of another.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Business people need to shake off the notion that information is hard to get.

There’s only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that’s already been written.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait ’til you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

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I spend a lot of time reading.

Make it just like a Mac.

‘I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risks.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

Patience is a key element of success.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

Life is not fair get, used to it!

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Life isn’t hard just find easier ways to get hard things done.

Bill Gates Quotes in English

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.

Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my Microsoft company.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

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I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence.

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Who decides what’s in Windows? The customers who buy it.

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We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

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Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

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Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world, if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

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We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

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The best teacher is very interactive.

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If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

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

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Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

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Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.

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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

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We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

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The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

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Rules your children did not and will not learn in school.

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I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

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If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

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A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad, is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

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.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.

Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world…. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

If geek means you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines show us the way.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

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.’

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

I’m a big believer that as much as possible, and there’s obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you. Find yourself.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until ever inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions, they will be moved to act.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance…… you thrive on that.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas, but the image is that they all come from the top - I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

If something is expensive to develop, and somebody’s not going to get paid, it won’t get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

Capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world ... if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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.

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the beginning.

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.

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.

Reward worthy failure - experimentation.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

I’m a geek.

I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job… because he will find an easy way to do it.

We start life with many big dreams–things we want to accomplish, create, build and experience. But if you ask anyone past the age of 40 what happened to all the dreams they had, they will most likely answer; Life.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

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.

Reward worthy failure - experimentation.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they.

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.

It’s not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There’s nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

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.

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don’t just think, ‘Yes, my country is doing well,’ but you think about the world at large.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

Find yourself.

Don’t make the same decision twice. Spend time and thought to make a solid decision the first time so that you don’t revisit the issue unnecessarily.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without talking about the other.

Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.

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.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

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.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

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.

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. *

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?

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.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

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.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

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.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination - and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

About three million computers get sold every year in China, but people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

I’ve always loved digging into the science and math behind my work. At Microsoft, I got deep into computer science. At the foundation, it’s computer science plus biology, chemistry, agronomy, and more. I’ll spend hours talking to a researcher or an expert, and then I’ll go home, dying to tell Melinda what I’ve learned. I can’t imagine a better way to spend the bulk of my time.

Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

We’re responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that’s something we brought to computing. And so it’s a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don’t get in the way of that dream.