Bill Gates

Improving the health and productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world.

Bill Gates

In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.

Bill Gates

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation’s future.

Bill Gates

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

Bill Gates

In programming when you’re making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.

Bill Gates

In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don’t feel as bad about it as if it was someone else’s.

Bill Gates

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the ’90s.

Bill Gates

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.

Bill Gates

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

Bill Gates

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we’ll make them obsolete or somebody else will.

Bill Gates