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Bill Gates Quotes about Business

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If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Inspirational, Money, Business

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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.

Money, Business, Loyal Customers

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

Inspirational, Motivational, Business

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Leadership, Business, Motivation

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

Money, Business, Years

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.80, Hachette UK

Make it just like a Mac.

Money, Business, Computer

If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

Business, Currents, Hard

Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

Business, Hard Work, Entrepreneur

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

Inspirational, Money, Business

Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

Business, Numbers, Fundamentals

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.88, Hachette UK

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

Money, Business, Pieces

Electronics Magazine, 1989.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Money, Business, Intellectual

Attributed to Bill Gates in "The Wall Street Journal", December 29, 2011.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Money, Business, Apples

"One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. FEbruary 16, 2005.

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

Business, Technology, Squares

1999 Business@the Speed of Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

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

Inspiring, Success, Business

"Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'". Interview with Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

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

Success, Money, Business

"Welcome to the greatest rock concert in the world" by Imogen Tilden, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2005.

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.

Business, Technology, Marketing

Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

Money, Business, Technology

80 Microcomputing Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, features.slashdot.org. 1980.

If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.

Business, Effort, Challenges

Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Success, Business, Technology

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

Money, Business, Commitment

Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.

Leadership, Jobs, Business

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.80, Hachette UK

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.

Business, Come Up, Breakthrough

The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.

Business, Lying, Discovery

"A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century". Bill Gates' speech at World Economic Forum 2008 in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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.

Inspiring, Success, Business

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