Bill Gates

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn’t be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

Bill Gates

If you say to people that there’s less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it’s the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.

Bill Gates

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

Bill Gates

If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.

Bill Gates

If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you’ll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.

Bill Gates

If you’re taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That’s how we became engaged in those things.

Bill Gates

If you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

Bill Gates

In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.

Bill Gates

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

Bill Gates

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.

Bill Gates