Quotes by Bill Gates

As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead. (Bill Gates)

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

Certainly, we are trying to preserve all of that culture, and get the advantages of being a large company with a broad product line, with stability, worldwide presence, great support, and yet have the advantages that a small software company has. (Bill Gates)

DOS is ugly and interferes with users experience. (Bill Gates)

Electronic mail has been a huge phenomena for us. It gives us a little bit of a closer feel. Even if somebodys office is in another building, you're always sending them messages. And even if they're off in another country it makes that easy. So, we are not as big as our size suggests. (Bill Gates)

Four or five years from now, you will wonder when somebody called up to get technical support how they just used the phone to try and describe what was going on with their PC. (Bill Gates)

Here at work were all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time. (Bill Gates)

Id say that my job, throughout all this, has been, I think, the most fun job I can imagine having. And partly the people I've gotten to work with outside the company. Certainly there are great people inside the company. And certainly, for at least a decade or so, that will just continue to be the case. (Bill Gates)

If Id had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago. (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)