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Bill Gates

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Bill Gates (born 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft Corporation. Under his leadership, Microsoft became the world's largest personal computer software company. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he has become one of the most generous philanthropists in history, focusing on global health and education.

“If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.”

— Bill Gates

Teacher

All Quotes by Bill Gates

“Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.”

— Bill Gates

Dad

“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.”

— Bill Gates

Business

“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

Communication

“I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.”

— Bill Gates

Science

“It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.”

— Bill Gates

Cool

“We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.”

— Bill Gates

Food

“Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.”

— Bill Gates

Society

“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

Business

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

— Bill Gates

Life

“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

Business

“Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.”

— Bill Gates

Funny

“Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.”

— Bill Gates

Time

“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.”

— Bill Gates

Change

“A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.”

— Bill Gates

Society

“Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.”

— Bill Gates

Government

“Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.”

— Bill Gates

Design

“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

Communication

“We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.”

— Bill Gates

Money

“Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.”

— Bill Gates

Success

“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

Morning