William Henry Bill Gates III well known as Bill Gates, who have been consider many times as the richest people in the world was born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington U.S.A. Together with Paul Allen, he owned the Microsoft which is consider as the worlds biggest company related to software. He is also a renowned philanthropist who often donates to some charity institutions.

Once, his professor told him that when he reached 30, he will be a millionaire. But later on, he became a billionaire at the age of 31. He studied law at Harvard, even though he has lots of interest to computer programming. But 2 years after he enrolled in law school, he joined Paul Allen to do their first operating system namely Micro-soft.

Below are some of his Quotes and Sayings related to his success that you can consider.

Bill Gates Inspirational Quotes

Bill Gates can be considered one of the sages of modern thinking and advancement through the contributions that he made and continues to make as the founder of a vast business empire that has touched almost every corner of this world. Here are some of the famous quotes of Bill Gates.

If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.
– Bill Gates

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
– Bill Gates

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?
– Bill Gates

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.
– Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
– Bill Gates

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

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
– Bill Gates

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
– Bill Gates

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don’t know if there’s a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
– Bill Gates

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

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
– Bill Gates

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
– Bill Gates

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

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.
– Bill Gates

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

Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we’ve rolled almost everything back into the company.
– Bill Gates

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
– Bill Gates

It’s not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There’s nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
– Bill Gates

People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
– Bill Gates

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.
– Bill Gates

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
– Bill Gates

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
– Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes on Success

What is more is that he is a philanthropist and his success has enabled him to reach out to the underprivileged in the society. His projects have made a difference in the lives of those who have been beneficiaries in one way or another, and Bill Gates is one person who is equally at home in a large multibillion corporation as he is in a small village in Africa while visiting some of the projects initiated by him and his wife.

“Patience is a key element of success.”
– Bill Gates

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
– Bill Gates

“To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.”
– Bill Gates

“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
– Bill Gates

“I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don’t just think, yes my country is doing well, but you think about the world at large.”
– Bill Gates

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
– Bill Gates

“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
– Bill Gates

“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

“The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.”
– Bill Gates

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
– Bill Gates

“Capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.”
– Bill Gates

Education and Life Quotes by Bill Gates

His quotes should inspire you to be the best that you can be because looking at his life it is clear that success does not depend on how well educated one is, but on how smart one is, no wonder that many of those who work for his organization are so much more educated than he is.

“If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.”
– Bill Gates

“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.”
– Bill Gates

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
– Bill Gates

“Life is not fair – get used to it!”
– Bill Gates

“‘I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’.”
– Bill Gates

“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

“You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.”
– Bill Gates

“Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.”
– Bill Gates

“If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.”
“Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.”
– Bill Gates

“I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one’s children. It’s not constructive for them.”
– Bill Gates

“Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.”
– Bill Gates

“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

“Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.”
– Bill Gates

Quotes on Business and Money

Seeing as this is a great and smart man, getting inspiration from such a man should be the desire of those who wish to excel, because success and humility make for a very attractive package indeed.

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
– Bill Gates

“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

“Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.”
– Bill Gates

“If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”
– Bill Gates

“Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.”
– Bill Gates

“There’s only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that’s already been written.”
– Bill Gates

“It’s not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There’s nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.”
– Bill Gates

“Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.”
– Bill Gates

“About three million computers get sold every year in China, but people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.”
– Bill Gates

“Make it just like a Mac.”
– Bill Gates

“At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas, but the image is that they all come from the top — I’m afraid that’s not quite right.”
– Bill Gates

“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.”
– Bill Gates

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
– Bill Gates

“In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.”
– Bill Gates

“We’re responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that’s something we brought to computing. And so it’s a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don’t get in the way of that dream.”
– Bill Gates

“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?”
– Bill Gates

“Every day were saying, ‘How can we keep this customer happy?’ How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don’t, somebody else will.”
– Bill Gates

“It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not.”
– Bill Gates

“Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.”
– Bill Gates

“If something is expensive to develop, and somebody’s not going to get paid, it won’t get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?”
– Bill Gates

“If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.”
– Bill Gates

“If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.”
– 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

“Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.”
– Bill Gates

“Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.”
– Bill Gates