Bill Gates Quotes About Economy

Quotes about: Economy

• DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

  Bill Gates

  Ugly, Economy, User Experience

• People everywhere love Windows.

  Bill Gates

  Love, People, Window

• The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Sick, Killing Each Other

• Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

  Bill Gates

  Food, Innovation, Environment

• Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Children, School

• Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce.

  Bill Gates

  Business, School, College

• I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Powerful, Issues

  Speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

• China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

  Bill Gates

  Player, Epidemics, Aids Epidemic

• Part of the magic of economic growth is how you educate people, and the leading economies have to stay in front of that. From an economic point of view, it affects competitiveness and creates jobs. Or from a social justice point of view, you can take someone in the bottom tier of income and let him compete to be a doctor or lawyer. The education system is the only reason the dream of equal opportunity has a chance of being delivered - and we're not running a good education system.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Dream, Opportunity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.

  Bill Gates

  Doubt, India, Way

• We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency of the economy and the government.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Opportunity, Government

• Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

  Bill Gates

  India, Needs, Taxation

• It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

  Bill Gates

  Educational, People, Focus

  "Keynote Address to the Creating Digital Dividends Conference". voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu. October 18, 2000.

• Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.

  Bill Gates

  Government, East, Tiny

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

• When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Intelligent, Medicine

• here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite small, because of the notion that the government takes care of everything, and Europe and China, philanthropy has not been nearly of the same scale.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Europe, Growing

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and biotechnology the U.S. has an amazing lead.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Japan, Two

• You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs.

  Bill Gates

  Refugee Crisis, Growth, Cost

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

• Thanks to quality education, Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world .. Israel is advancing in high-tech even more than other developed countries.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Israel, Quality

  "Technology's Promise Land". www.foxnews.com. November 14, 2003.

• Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Two, People

  "The Interview: Bill Gates on philanthropy and optimism". Interview with John Geddes, www.macleans.ca. March 4, 2015.

• We are seeing smarter philanthropy, more philanthropy, and that's true world wide. So it's kind of a movement that has a lot of accomplishments, even though as a percentage of the economy, it's still only a few per cent.

  Bill Gates

  Accomplishment, Movement, World

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

• Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.

  Bill Gates

  School, Technology, Years

• R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves and the world and our economy have been very, very clear. I'm hopeful we can make a very strong case there. Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.

  Bill Gates

  Strong, Space, Hopeful

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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