Quotes By Bill Gates

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

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

Life's not fair, get over it!

In china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

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

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping -- they called it opportunity.

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

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

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Patience is a key element of success.

... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year -- if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

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.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin.

I spend a lot of time reading.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.