Bill Gates: Zitate auf Englisch

“Choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”

“If you're born poor it's not your fault, but if you die poor it's your fault.”

“I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.”

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

“I studied every thing but never topped…. But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees”

“If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.”

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

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

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

“We are in the end game, I'm optimistic that we will be successful. I'm personally very committed”

“Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world… if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“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.”

“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”

“In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.”

“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”

“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”

“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”

“Life's not fair, get over it!”