640K ought to be enough for anybody.
— Bill Gates

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

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

DOS is ugly and interferes with users’ experience.
— Bill Gates

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away.
— Bill Gates

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
— 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

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
— Bill Gates

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.
— Bill Gates

I’m sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn’t on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
— 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

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

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

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

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

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
— Bill Gates

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

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
— 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.
— Bill Gates

Life is not fair; get used to it.
— 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

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.
— Bill Gates

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

People everywhere love Windows.
— Bill Gates

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
— Bill Gates

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
— Bill Gates

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
— 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

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

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
— Bill Gates

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
— Bill Gates

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.
— 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

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
— 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

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
— Bill Gates

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
— Bill Gates

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
— Bill Gates

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
— 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

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.
— Bill Gates

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.
— Bill Gates

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

1. All successful people have a vision. They have the ability the “see” clearly what they want before it exists. – Bill Gates

2. Some of success is luck. Just being in the right place at the right time. – Bill Gates

3. When you find a good idea act on it right away. – Bill Gates

4. Absorb, assess, and then act. Knowledge without action is impotence. – Donald Trump

5. Avoid your comfort zone — it’s probably outdated anyway. – Donald Trump

6. Resolve to be bigger than your problems. Who’s the boss? – Donald Trump

7. If you’re honest, you should know the questions that should be asked, as well as the answers. That’s probably why there’s so much confusion out there today. – Donald Trump

8. Do business with people you like and who share your objectives. – Warren Buffett

9. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently – Warren Buffett

10. Borrowed money is the most common way that smart guys go broke. – Warren Buffett

11. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. – Warren Buffett

12. Strive to become a market leader. Own and control the primary technology in everything you do. – Steve Jobs

13. Ask for feedback from customers of diverse backgrounds – Steve Jobs

14. Learn from failures, admit it and move on. – Steve Jobs

15. Learn continually from people within and outside of your company. – Steve Jobs

16. You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. – Steve Jobs

17. Have a clear articulation of what your value proposition is – what makes you different? – Michael Dell

18. Tough times present new opportunities and the seeds can be sown for future successful companies. – Michael Dell

19. There’s never been an easier time to connect with customers all over the world – utilize social media opportunities like blogs, Facebook and Twitter. – Michael Dell

20. Find something that works well and then replicate it. – Michael Dell

21. Take advantage of the resources around you – people, technology and suppliers. – Michael Dell

22. Keep your messages simple and clutter free to reach your market faster. – Jack Welch

23. See change as an opportunity-keep an eye out for changes to your business. – Jack Welch

24. Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson

25. Big businesses will always try to crush small upstarts. To beat big businesses, use the strengths of being small. Big corporations are impersonal; staff is often not treated well. At a small company, you can make sure your staff is proud of working for you and then they’ll work hard to be successful. And small companies are more nimble. – Richard Branson

26. If you’re a successful entrepreneur, wealth comes with it. A responsibility comes with that wealth. – Richard Branson

27. A good company runs as if it is a family. If your son messes up, you don’t kick him out of the house. – Richard Branson

Follow the practical way,
George