Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

- Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

- Bill Gates

If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.

- Bill Gates

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

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

- Bill Gates

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

- Bill Gates

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

- Bill Gates

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

- Bill Gates

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

Life is not fair; get used to it.

- Bill Gates

Patience is a key element of success.

- Bill Gates

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

- Bill Gates

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

- Bill Gates

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

- Bill Gates

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

- Bill Gates

It's not about money. It's about the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

- Bill Gates

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

- Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

- Bill Gates

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

- Bill Gates

Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

- Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

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

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

- Bill Gates

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.

- Bill Gates

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

- Bill Gates

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

- Bill Gates

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do.

- Bill Gates

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other.

- Bill Gates

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

- Bill Gates