Bill Gates Quotes

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

~ Bill Gates

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

~ 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

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

~ Bill Gates

When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.

~ Bill Gates

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

~ Bill Gates

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

~ Bill Gates

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

~ Bill Gates

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

~ Bill Gates

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.

~ Bill Gates

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

~ Bill Gates

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

~ Bill Gates

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

~ Bill Gates

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.

~ Bill Gates

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

~ Bill Gates

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

~ Bill Gates

The future of advertising is the Internet.

~ Bill Gates