Quotes by Bill Gates

When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand,the whole world forget who you are.Its life.

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 terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I dont know if theres a god or not...

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

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

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

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.

Life is not fair, get used to it

The world today has 6.8 billion people. Thats heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.

DONT COMPARE YOURSELF WITH ANYONE IN THIS WORLD..........IF U DO SO U R INSULTING YOURSELF

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

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

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.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

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

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

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.

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