Bill Gates Quotes

“We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad, is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count, like customer satisfaction and performance ... you thrive on that.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“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.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“If you have complete belief in your idea, often perseverance can be the difference between success and failure. Adapt, improve and keep at it.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“If you’ve got a revolutionary idea that you truly believe in, don’t worry if other people don’t get it. Start developing it now so that you’ll be prepared when the time is right.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“Creating something that solves a problem, fills a need or engineers innovative solutions begins with making the transition from creative thought to applied principles.”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“Buffett and Gates are sitting together at a table, both men were asked to write on a piece of paper the one thing they felt had contributed most to their success. Sure enough, both men had unknowingly written down the same word: focus. It”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

“shows us that business is not merely about business, but that it has a personal aspect that needs to be nurtured, respected, and attended to properly. Removing the personal aspect from a business diminishes passion, stunts vision, and disables an individual from projecting towards the future. Lessons Learned: Bill Gates states that”
― Influential Individuals, Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success