Learn from your unhappy customers. Bill Gates More Quotes by Bill Gates More Quotes From Bill Gates In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man. Bill Gates deep-understandingmenculture Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other company, especially if the other company has more people on the project and they're entrenched and people are saying that we don't have a chance of getting in there and... and doing well. Bill Gates competitionjobspeople You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity. Bill Gates thanksgivingfridaymonday A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts. Bill Gates microsoftmachineswould-be The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny. Bill Gates teasesongkids 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'll go out of business. Bill Gates lameinformationmatter The government is there day in and day out, if you want all kids to have education, if you want to run courts, if you want to have an army, if you want to have roads, you've got to have the taxation system that funds everything that you expect. Bill Gates armyrunningkids Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions. Bill Gates nervouscommunicationaction In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price. Bill Gates energyhelpingworld Bioterrorism is like earthquakes, you should think in order of magnitudes. If you can kill 10 people that's a one, 100 people that's a two... Bioterrorism is the thing that can give you not just sixes, but sevens, eights and nines. Bill Gates earthquakesorderthinking Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen. Bill Gates good-thingsreadingpeople The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. Bill Gates moralimportantthinking 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 actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school. Bill Gates teacherchildrenschool The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying. Bill Gates cuttingdyingpeople One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything that would be viewed as an exercise of power, it'll be displaced very rapidly. Bill Gates technologyeyeexercise I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do? Bill Gates confusedgivingmean The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice. Bill Gates sacrificesuccesspeople People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works. Bill Gates piecestryingpeople I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them. Bill Gates leavingkidsthinking I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that. Bill Gates drawingwritingideas
