Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true. Bill Gates More Quotes by Bill Gates More Quotes From Bill Gates 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. Bill Gates dreameducationlife 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 businesssuccessinspiring For one thing, there's an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn't matter if you have a perfect product, production plan and marketing pitch; you'll still need the right people to lead and implement those plans. Bill Gates marketingperfectpeople Don't let complexity stop you. Bill Gates complexity Make it just like a Mac. Bill Gates computermoneybusiness About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're 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. Bill Gates moneybusinessyears I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need. Bill Gates responsibilitygivingbelieve When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have. Bill Gates impactdreamyears Success is a lousy teacher. Bill Gates teacher If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR! Bill Gates dollarsmarketingcommunication You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code. Bill Gates reviewswritingpeople The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out. Bill Gates nextyearsfirsts It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best. Bill Gates interventionimprovingpoverty Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health. Bill Gates government-educationtransparencygovernment The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough. Bill Gates toughdiseaseworld in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you Bill Gates humorfunnypeople In the US in the 1900's 60 % of people were employed on the farms. Today it's less than 1%. If you told people back then that this would happen they wouldn't have believed it. If you told them we would have therapy, massages and spas that played important parts in our lives they would've have believed us. Bill Gates importanttodaypeople If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? Bill Gates leadershipinspirationalthinking Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition. Bill Gates clear-goalsprogressmark If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG. Bill Gates cartechnologysuccess
