60 Inspirational Quotes by Bill Gates | Gate Quotes

Who is Bill Gates?

Bill Gates is the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft, the world's largest software company. He was born on 28 October 1955 in an upper-middle-class family in Washington. Bill Gate is a great entrepreneur and businessman in the world.

Today we give you the best quotes and sayings of Bill Gates that will inspire you.

60 Most Inspirational Quotes by Bill Quotes

1. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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2. Until we're fantastically educating every kid until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
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3. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
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4. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
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5. I 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.
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6. You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.
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7. If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
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8. 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.
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9. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
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10. If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
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11. It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
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12. I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
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13. Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
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14. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
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15. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
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16. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
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17. If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
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18. The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
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19. You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.
~ Bill Gates

20. I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.
~ Bill Gates

21. Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
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22. Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
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23. Often you have to rely on intuition. 

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24. Life is not fair; get used to it.
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25. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. ~ Bill Gates

26. 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.

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27. We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
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28. The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
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29. Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
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30. Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without talking about the other.
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31. Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
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32. In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.
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33. Climate change is a terrible problem, and it needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
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34. Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
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35. 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.
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36. Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.
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37. 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

38. I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
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39. Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
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40. 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.

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41. Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
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42. I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
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43. We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
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44. People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines. There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
~ Bill Gates

45. Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
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46. Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

~ Bill Gates

47. Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

~ Bill Gates

48. 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 going to get worse for quite a while.
~ Bill Gates

49. Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
~ Bill Gates

50. 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

51. The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
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52. Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believer in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin.
~ Bill Gates

53. In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.
~ Bill Gates

54. Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
~ Bill Gates

55. Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
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56. OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.
~ Bill Gates

57. 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.

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58. By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
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59. Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.
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60. 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

Conclusion

Bill Gates turned his life from zero to billions and even won the "World's Greatest Self-Made Man" award. Before and after Since the beginning of time, humans have wanted to achieve great things.

The more successful we are, the more we become obsessed with proving ourselves. We always want to make sure that we are still on the road to success. However, how far are we really on this road?  One thing that Bill Gates never did was to compare himself to others.