1,672 Quotes by Bill Gates

I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.

Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.

Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

With the launch of Energy City, we have the opportunity to work together to create new tools and solutions that will enable oil and gas companies to achieve new levels of performance in every phase of their business.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.

here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite small, because of the notion that the government takes care of everything, and Europe and China, philanthropy has not been nearly of the same scale.