Bill Gates Quotes About Business

Quotes about: Business

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

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

• If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Money, Business

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Success, Teacher

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

• It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Hard Work, Entrepreneur

• I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Money, Business

  "Welcome to the greatest rock concert in the world" by Imogen Tilden, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2005.

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

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Squares

  1999 Business@the Speed of Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

• Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

  Bill Gates

  Funny, Success, Hilarious

  "Are We All Nerds Now?" by Matthew Kitchen, www.esquire.com. May 25, 2013.

• If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

• Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Numbers, Fundamentals

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.88, Hachette UK

• Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Apples

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. FEbruary 16, 2005.

• People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Money, Business

• Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

• If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Effort, Challenges

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

• 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

  Business, Technology, Marketing

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

• We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.37, Hachette UK

• Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Intellectual

  Attributed to Bill Gates in "The Wall Street Journal", December 29, 2011.

• Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Success, Education

  Playboy Interview, 1994.

• I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Business, Impact

• Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

• This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Money

• To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

• Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Commitment

• About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Years

  Bill Gates' Speech at the University of Washington, archive.fortune.com. July 20, 1998.

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