Bill Gates

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

Bill Gates

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

Bill Gates

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Bill Gates

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

Bill Gates

Nobody has a guaranteed position in computer technologies business. We’ve done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast and the structure of the business as it broadens out is going to be so different.

Bill Gates

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

Bill Gates

Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

Bill Gates

Now, if you’re rich, you can spend a lot of money, Netherlands-style, and reduce that. But Bangladesh or parts of India, like Calcutta, they just simply won’t be able to afford that kind of protection.

Bill Gates

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it’s about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it’s less than one ton. It’s an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

Bill Gates

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

Bill Gates