Bill Gates
Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates IIIis an American business magnate, entrepreneur, philanthropist, investor, and programmer. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and co-authored several books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 October 1955
CitySeattle, WA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses
Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.
Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
Make it just like a Mac.
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.
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
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.
Whenever we come out with a new version, and particularly with this version, you'll see an increase in revenue because you get that installed base coming in and you get people who have been reluctant thinking about whether they should buy the product saying, 'That is the hot new thing,'