Quote by Bill Gates (about Success)

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose.

Bill Gates

Success

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Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Bill Gates

Capitalism North Korea

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates - 1999

Business

Life is not fair, get used to it!

Bill Gates

Life Fairness

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

Bill Gates

Laziness

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

Bill Gates

Character Self-Confidence

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

Bill Gates - 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.

Bill Gates - March 2020

Coronavirus

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

Bill Gates

Internet

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

Bill Gates

Internet

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

Bill Gates

Wealth & Richness

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

Bill Gates

Nuclear Energy

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

Bill Gates

Aids & HIV

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

Bill Gates - 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.

Bill Gates

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.

Bill Gates - October 2014

Bitcoin

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)

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Washington - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Washington (State)

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

Usher

Success

If one does not often make mistakes, then one has not challenged oneself enough.

Ferry Porsche

Motivation

I think we can all agree Elon isn't serious and it's time to move on. I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity. Elon won't confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead. If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I'm going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.

Mark Zuckerberg - August 2023

Elon Musk

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

Robert Bosch

Business

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

Tim Cook

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

Howard Schultz

Starbucks

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

Ray Kroc

Traveling

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

Elon Musk - July 2025

2025

We really do believe that we can improve the world, one song at a time.

Daniel Ek (Spotify CEO)

Spotify

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

Reed Hastings

Ideas Business

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

Lee Iacocca

Business

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Sam Walton

Money Capitalism Business

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

Success Fame

Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

Jack Ma

Giving Up Motivation

I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer, 'cause you guys paid for all this.

Jeff Bezos - July 2021, about the first manned Blue Origin flight to space

Amazon

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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