Bill Gates Mental Quotations

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.

Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

Technical computing is crucial to the many discoveries that impact our quality of life; from making safer, more efficient cars and airplanes to addressing global health issues and environmental changes.

We are trying to put a 'services plus software' mentality into many of the product groups inside Microsoft.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

Finally, assuming that many of those are fulfilled, which won't be easy in tight budget times, we're taking the supply side at the basic research level, because that's where government is absolutely fundamental.

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.