3 December 2020 Bill Gates It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates 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.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates 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.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates 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.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates I’m sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn’t on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates 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.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates 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.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates If you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates 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.
3 December 2020 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.
