27 Inspirational Quotes from Bill Gates


1.    Patience is a key element of success. – Bill Gates
2.    Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. – Bill Gates
3.    It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. – Bill Gates
4.    People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? – Bill Gates
5.    If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good. – Bill Gates
6.    I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. – Bill Gates
7.    If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago? – Bill Gates
8.    We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction – Bill Gates
9.    To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks. – Bill Gates
10. We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior. – Bill Gates
11. Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want that on my business card. – Bill Gates
12. I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. – Bill Gates
13. Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. – Bill Gates
14. Life is not fair – get used to it! – Bill Gates
15. If geek means you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble. – Bill Gates
16. Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself. – Bill Gates
17. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. – Bill Gates
18. I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’. – Bill Gates
19. 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. – Bill Gates
20. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates
21. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity. – Bill Gates
22. Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning. – Bill Gates
23. This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. – Bill Gates
24. The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. – Bill Gates
25. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. – Bill Gates
26. Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true. – Bill Gates

27. We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve. – Bill Gates

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