30 inspirational quotes from Bill Gates

1-“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.” Bill Gates

2-“The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.” Bill Gates

3-“Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want that on my business card.” Bill Gates

4-“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.” Bill Gates

5-“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.” Bill Gates

6-“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.” Bill Gates

7-“Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.” Bill Gates

8-“On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.” Bill Gates

9-“What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.” Bill Gates

10-“The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.” Bill Gates

11-I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.” Bill Gates

12-“Don’t make the same decision twice. Spend time and thought to make a solid decision the first time so that you don’t revisit the issue unnecessarily.” Bill Gates

13-“We start life with many big dreams–things we want to accomplish, create, build and experience. But if you ask anyone past the age of 40 what happened to all the dreams they had, they will most likely answer; Life.” Bill Gates

14-“Life has a tendency to just happen. But it happens because we make choices. The life you create and design for yourself is going to accumulate from the choices you make over time. Sure, there are unexpected things that can derail dreams. But we can control where we put our focus, and if we choose to put one dream ahead of another.” Bill Gates

15-“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” Bill Gates

16-“If you were born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.” Bill Gates

17-“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” Bill Gates

18-“To win big, you sometimes need to take big risks.” Bill Gates

19-“I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.” Bill Gates

20-“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” Bill Gates

21-“If geek means you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.” – Bill Gates

22-“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.” – Bill Gates

23-“We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.” – Bill Gates

24-“Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.” – Bill Gates

25-“Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping they called it opportunity.” – Bill Gates