50 Bill Gates Quotes to Motivate Yourself and Succeed

Of course my children will have computers, but first they will have books.

I don’t know if there is a god or not, but I think religious principles are perfectly valid.

Success is a bad teacher. He seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Your dissatisfied customers are your biggest source of learning.

The key to business success is realizing where the world is headed and getting there first.

Don’t give up in the first attempts, persistence is a friend of achievement.

If you want to get where most don’t, do what most don’t.

Try once, twice, three times and if possible, try the fourth, fifth and as many times as necessary.

It’s good to celebrate success, but it’s more important to listen to the lessons of failure.

Patience is a key element of success.

People are always afraid of change. They were afraid of electricity when it was invented.

I failed in some subjects. My friend passed them all. Today he is one of the engineers at Microsoft and I am the owner of the company.

I always choose a lazy person to do hard work. Because she’ll find an easy way to do it.

If you can’t do something well, at least make it look good.

Don’t play with the geek in your class, because one day he might be your boss.

The internet is becoming the central square of tomorrow’s global village.

I never took time off when I was in my 20s, ever.

Without books, without reading, our children will be unable to write – including their own story.

Knowledge became the main factor of production and wealth generation.

I had many dreams when I was little, I believe this is due to the fact that I had the opportunity to read a lot.

To create a new model, you need something that isn’t just a little different; it takes something really new, that captures people’s imaginations.

Every company needs to have people who make mistakes, who are not afraid to make mistakes and learn from their mistakes.

How you gather, manage and use information determines whether you win or lose.

We work to make our products obsolete before our competitors do.

As we look to the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Until we’ve educated every child in a fantastic way, until every decaying center has been cleaned up, there’s no shortage of things to do.

Technology is just a tool. To make children work together and motivate them, the teacher is most important.

Size works against excellence.

If your business is not on the internet, then your business will be out of business.

The internet has changed the rules of competition, and this gives small businesses the chance to leverage what they do best – react quickly and develop close relationships with their customers – against their biggest competitors.

Never compare yourself to anyone in this world. If you do, you are insulting yourself.

We are in the early years of what I call the digital decade – an era in which computers will no longer be merely useful to become a significant and indispensable part of our daily lives.

People overestimate what will happen in two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

Life is not easy. Get used to it.

If you think your teacher is tough, expect you to have a boss.

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

Power does not come from knowledge, but from shared knowledge.

Microsoft isn’t stingy, it’s innovative and fair.

When we look to the future, we will see that the leaders will be the ones who favor the development of all others.

It’s easier to be first than to remain first.

Having a degree is a much more certain path to success.

We must be realistic and understand that a government, without the constant attention of highly qualified people and without metrics, will end up not doing what it should very well.

Intelligence is the ability to absorb information in real time. To ask questions that make sense. It’s having a good memory. It’s building bridges between subjects that don’t seem to be related and innovating by making those connections.

When I left school, I knew little about the world’s worst inequalities. It took me decades to learn.

In terms of time management, religion is not very efficient. There are a lot of other things I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Capitalism is a wonderful thing to motivate people. Help in creating genius inventions. On the other hand, as far as large-scale world problems are concerned, it really disappointed deeply.

If I had a definite idea of ​​a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what’s going on, so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.

Whether it’s Google or Apple or a free program, we have fantastic competitors and that keeps us on our toes.

Does the First World have any idea how four billion of the six billion inhabitants of the planet live? If we were aware, we would have helped, we would have been involved.