The best Quotes by Bill Gates

1999

Business

Life is not fair, get used to it!

Life Fairness

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Laziness

Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Character Self-Confidence

There are a few things that I doubt will ever go back.

April 2020

Coronavirus

The U.S. is past this opportunity to control COVID-19 without shutdown. We did not act fast enough to have an ability to avoid the shutdown.

March 2020

Coronavirus

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Internet

The Internet is like a wave. You either learn to swim with it or you sink.

Internet

If you were born poor, it's not your mistake.
But if you die poor, it's your mistake.

Wealth & Richness

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

Nuclear Energy

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

Aids & HIV

If you have less money than Elon [Musk], you should probably watch out.

February 2021, about investing in Bitcoin

Elon Musk Bitcoin

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.

Black Friday

Bitcoin is exciting because it shows how cheap it can be. Bitcoin is better than currency in that you don't have to be physically in the same place and, of course, for large transactions, currency can get pretty inconvenient.

October 2014

Bitcoin

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.

Technology Business

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

Teachers Education Technology

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

am 1. Oktober 2004 (Rede im Museum für Computergeschichte)

Computer Business Microsoft

Quotes about Bill Gates

Hello, Bill Gates? Turns out I’m the richest guy in the world, because I have an adoring wife and a loving family.
Hello, UNICEF? Yes, I’d like to donate some of my immense riches. What’s that? Children are still starving in Africa because wife love is worthless to you? What an odd policy!

Stan Smith in American Dad!

Hi, my name is Bill Gates and I'll teach you how to count to ten:
1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10

Microsoft Windows

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Our net worth is ultimately defined not by dollars but rather by how well we serve others.

Paul Allen

Money Selflessness Helping

Facing your own mortality forces you to re-evaluate your priorities.

Paul Allen

Death

The intensity of the Super Bowl is one-of-a-kind. An NBA finals is best-of-seven. But the Super Bowl, one game, winner-take-all. The intensity is off the charts.

Paul Allen

Super Bowl

Why can't you compare Washington State and Florida?
Because it'd be like comparing apples and oranges.

Florida Washington (State)

One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.

Katharine Graham

Washington (State)

Great companies are built on great products.

Elon Musk

Business Tesla

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO)

Progress Change Risk Business

Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.

Elon Musk - July 2025

2025

Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.
Have a nice day, DJT!

Elon Musk - Juni 2025

Donald Trump 2025 The Epstein Files

Now, more than any time in our history, we will be judged by our capacity for compassion. Our ability to come through this, won't just be down to what government or businesses do, but by the individual acts of kindness that we show each other.

Rishi Sunak - March 2020

Coronavirus

Give me your love and not your like!

Internet Social Media

We're working on becoming more efficient with our energy usage, but those algorithms use as much energy as the whole country of Denmark.

Frank Thelen - December 2017

Bitcoin Cryptocurrencies

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Albert Einstein

Foolishness Technology Generations

Guns don't kill people, people kill people! Guns defend people against people with smaller guns.

Stan Smith in American Dad! - Season 1 Episode 14

Weapons NRA

There's an old German saying: 'Don't blame the fish!' There are other sayings, but they mostly involve genocide...

Klaus Heisler in American Dad!

Microsoft is in a very unique position to be able to go spend Sony out of business. Sony is really the only other player who could compete with Game Pass and we have a 2 year and 10 million subs lead.

Matt Booty - June 2023

Microsoft

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

Usher

Success

You know what capitalism is? Gettin' f*cked!

Tony Montana in Scarface

Capitalism

North Korea, voted Korea of the year by North Korea Magazine for the past three decades.

Trevor Noah in The Daily Show - Juni 2022

North Korea

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

Win or lose, do it fairly!

Knute Rockne

Fairness

My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

Charles Bukowski in Factotum

Laziness Ambition

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Character Decisions

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Character Self-Confidence

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice

Wealth & Richness

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Albert Einstein

Nuclear Energy Nuclear Weapons

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

Calvin Klein

Aids & HIV

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