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Bill Gates Quotes (85 quotes)
 | Source/Notes: The Road Ahead (1995) |
| “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.” ―Bill Gates Source/Notes: TIME magazine Vol. 149, No. 2 (13 January 1997) |
| Source/Notes: As quoted in "In the Eye of the Storm: Reengineering Corporate Culture" (Leadership Press, 1995) by John R. Childress, p. 134 |
| “It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” ―Bill Gates Source/Notes: USAir Magazine, "Bill Gates: The Importance of Making Mistakes", July 1995, p. 48 |
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| “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.” ―Bill Gates Source/Notes: The Road Ahead (1996 edition), Wheeler Pub Incorporated - ISBN: 9781568953069 |
| “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 irritating.” ―Bill Gates Source/Notes: "Why I Hate Spam" by Bill Gates, June 23 2003, www.microsoft.com/presspass/ofnote/06-23wsjspam.mspx |
| “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.… The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can.” ―Bill Gates Source/Notes: Challenges and Strategy (16 May 1991). Note that this quotation has been paired with a misattributed quotation. |
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| “The best way to prepare 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 Source/Notes: Interview from Programmers at Work (1986) |
| “The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.” ―Bill Gates Source/Notes: Business @ The Speed of Thought (1999) |
| “I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.” ―Bill Gates Source/Notes: Interview on "NOW" with Bill Moyers on May 9, 2003 |
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Bill Gates
Born: October 28, 1955 (age 62)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Businessman
Bio: William Henry Bill Gates III is an American business magnate, computer programmer and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.
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