Bill Gates
Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates IIIis an American business magnate, entrepreneur, philanthropist, investor, and programmer. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and co-authored several books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 October 1955
CitySeattle, WA
CountryUnited States of America
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.
People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.
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.
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.
The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
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.
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.