Quotes from Bill Gates

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.

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

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

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

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 irritating.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

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.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

There's life and death in every email.

The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

Life is not fair get used to used to it