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Bill Gates Quotes about Money

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.

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

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

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.

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

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

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

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

"How Microsoft conquered China" by David Kirkpatrick, archive.fortune.com. July 17, 2007.