Bill Gates Quotes

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it’s very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.