Bill Gates Quotes About Life, Business and Love

Our latest collection of Bill Gates quotes to inspire you to success!

Each quote has a net worth 20.2 million so read each one with care! LOL! Enjoy!

William Henry “Bill” Gates, III is a business magnate, mega philanthropist, serial investor, and computer program developer.

Bill Gates is known for being the Chief Executive and Chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest and most popular personal-computer software company. Bill Gates leads the world in both net worth and charitable donations.

While reading through this collection of Bill Gates quotes, ask yourself the following questions.

How does this idea apply into my life?

How could this idea impact my performance in the work place?

What is Bill trying to say about our own unique voice, journey and self?

What can I do to become more successful?

What ideas do I need to let go of?

Below is our collection of inspirational, wise, and thought-provoking Bill Gates quotes and sayings, collected from a variety of sources over the years.

Enjoy these awesome Bill gates quotes!

Bill Gates Quotes About What Successful People Do

1.) Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one. – Bill Gates

2.) It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. – Bill Gates

3.) Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. – Bill Gates

4.) Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. – Bill Gates

5.) 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

6.) If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good. – Bill Gates

7.) Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you. Find yourself. – Bill Gates

8.) Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. – Bill Gates

9.) I’m a big believer that as much as possible, and there’s obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing. – Bill Gates

10.) Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated – Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes that will inspire you to change the world

11.) I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. – Bill Gates

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

13.) Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates

14.) We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve. – Bill Gates

15.) 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

16.) As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. – Bill Gates

17.) 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

18.) I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. – Bill Gates

19.) Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. – Bill Gates

20.) 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

Bill Gates Quotes to enrich your life

21.) Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true. – Bill Gates

22.) The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. – Bill Gates

23.) 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

24.) Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.  – Bill Gates

25.) If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good. – Bill Gates

26.) Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until ever inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do. – Bill Gates

27.) If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure. – Bill Gates

28.) If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago? – Bill Gates

29.) We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior. – Bill Gates

30.) I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don’t just think, ‘Yes, my country is doing well,’ but you think about the world at large. – Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes on Leadership

31.) There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position. – Bill Gates

32.) You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines show us the way.  – Bill Gates

33.) The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice. – Bill Gates

34.) I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. – Bill Gates

35.) I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software. – Bill Gates

36.) I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful! – Bill Gates

37.) Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading. – Bill Gates

38.) Who decides what’s in Windows? The customers who buy it. – Bill Gates

39.) The best teacher is very interactive. – Bill Gates

40.) In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that. – Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes on Success

41.) Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. – Bill Gates

42.) We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. – Bill Gates

43.) Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy. – Bill Gates

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

45.) To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks. – Bill Gates

46.) Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself. – Bill Gates

47.) The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system. – Bill Gates

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What other Bill Gates quotes would you add to the list?

Bill Gates is a great business man, a great inspiration, and a great hard worker. He is a hero to many people because of all his accomplishments and because he worked hard to rich where he is.

We hope his words will help you succeed and never forget to be kind to others.

Which of these Bill Gates quotes was your favorite? Do you have any other inspirational quotes to add to the list? Tell us in the comment section below!

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