

Quotes By Bill Gates

Businessman
Bill Gates
Oct 28, 1955 - present
Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.
Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.
The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use email and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the emails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.
I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.
By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.
Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.
The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.
If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.
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