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William Henry Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, author, and philanthropist. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world’s largest PC software company. He has been the chairman and chief executive of Microsoft since Craig Mundie replaced him as CEO of Microsoft in February 1999.
Bill Gates is one of the most prolific inventors in history. In his career, he has had more than 200 patents granted to date that have helped shape our digital world as we know it today. As he has said himself, “I don’t think I’ve ever met a person who didn’t have some software or device that Bill Gates invented.”
He was born in a lower-middle-class family in Seattle, Washington. When he was still an infant, his father left to find work, and his mother placed him in daycare while she worked. His parents divorced when he was young, and Gates often visited his father, who worked as a janitor at Boeing. Shortly after his divorce, Gates met Paul Allen, who would later become Microsoft’s first business partner. After graduating from high school, Bill attended Harvard, where he studied computer science before dropping out to start Microsoft with Allen.
He is commonly regarded as one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time, with a net worth of around $125.5 billion.
Check out some of his most inspiring quotes that will change your life and make you succeed in achieving what you want.
59 Bill Gates Quotes To Become Successful in Life
“Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.”
“To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.”
“Patience is a key element of success.”
“We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.”
“The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.”
“We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.”
“Reward worthy failure–experimentation.”
“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
“The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.”
“When you have money in hand only you forget who are you but when you do not have any money in your hand, the whole world forgets who you are. It’s life!”
“I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.”
“If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.”
“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
“To win big, you sometimes need to take big risks.”
“I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.”
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
“Don’t make the same decision twice. Spend time and thought to make a solid decision the first time so that you don’t revisit the issue unnecessarily.”
“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world, if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
“Our success has really been based on partnerships from the beginning.”
“Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.”
“Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‘tap-dancing to work.’”
“We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.”
“Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.”
“Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.”
“If you were born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.”
“We start life with many big dreams–things we want to accomplish, create, build and experience. But if you ask anyone past the age of 40 what happened to all the dreams they had, they will most likely answer; Life.”
“I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.”
“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world… if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
“The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.”
“Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.”
“Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.”
“When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.”
“Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.”
“Life is not fair get, used to it!”
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
“Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.”
“Life is not fair — get used to it!”
“We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.”
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
“Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.”
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
“If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.”
“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”
“If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.”
“It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
“I spend a lot of time reading.”
“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
“Life is not fair, get used to it.”
“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
“I’m a geek.”
“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”
“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think that a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
“I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars, there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. ‘But once you get much beyond that, I have to tell you, it’s the same hamburger.”
I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.”
“If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‘satisfactory,’ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?”
“If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.”
“If you think your teacher is tough, wait ’til you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.”
