A quote by Bill Gates, the entrepreneur who founded Microsoft
Bill Gates is an entrepreneur who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend and became known as a key figure in the microcomputer revolution.
By creating the Windows series and dramatically increasing the number of PC users around the world, he made a major contribution that continues to shape the present day.
Today, we’ll introduce some of Bill Gates’s famous quotes.
These words, born from countless challenges he has taken on, are sure to offer hints for living your everyday life.
Quotes (1–10) by Bill Gates, the entrepreneur who founded Microsoft
If an idea of mine doesn’t get laughed at by someone at least once, I can’t claim I’m being truly original.Bill Gates
These words feel like a lesson on how to generate original ideas.
An idea that doesn’t make anyone laugh even once before it’s released might be something that already exists.
What already exists can’t be called original, and it’s probably unlikely to resonate with the public.
But our modern world is already overflowing with everything, isn’t it? In that context, these words also make us acutely feel how hard it is to create something truly original.
Still, they may be telling us that such effort is precisely what’s necessary to bring something into being.
It’s never too late to start something.Bill Gates
Bill Gates’s words gently give us the courage to begin.
When we study, it’s easy to feel down because we think we started late.
But what matters isn’t comparing ourselves to others—it’s whether we can take a step forward now.
Even if you lacked motivation until yesterday, the moment you sit at your desk today, the story begins to move.
Regardless of age or circumstances, going back to learn something new is never something to be ashamed of.
Small, steady efforts create the future.
His words carry that kind of positive message.
The moment you feel “It’s not too late to start now,” you’ve already taken the first step.
The world doesn’t care about your self-esteem. The world expects you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.Bill Gates
When doing something, some people may tend to focus on their own evaluation or sense of satisfaction that they gain from it.
However, what those around you care about is not the doer’s sense of satisfaction, but what results were achieved.
This message tells us that when you take action, you should prioritize delivering results over your personal feelings.
Everyone wants to value their own emotions—wanting praise, higher evaluations, recognition.
But in a company, such personal feelings don’t matter; the only interest is in what you ultimately accomplished or produced.
Your evaluation may eventually improve, but first, make it a priority to deliver results for the company and for the users.
Often, intuition is the only thing to rely on.Bill Gates
Some people might think that intuition isn’t reliable, but it can actually be surprisingly useful.
Even Bill Gates, who said these words, may have had ideas that he began to nurture from a spark of intuition.
Intuition is a straightforward thought with no hidden agenda, right? An idea born from a blank-slate intuition can, in a sense, be innovative, full of dreams, and something that would be amazing if it worked.
By refining that idea, it might even lead to the creation of remarkable technology.
Even if it sounds like, “Is that really possible?” it might be worth following your intuition and giving it a try at least once.
Life isn’t fair. Get used to it.Bill Gates
I imagine this quote strikes a chord with many people.
Equality… fairness… We all hear about them at least once in our lives, and most believe that’s how things should be.
Yet in reality, disparities lie everywhere as if they’re the norm.
Rather than lamenting that fact, Bill Gates seems to be urging us to accept it and still make the effort to move forward.
Don’t give up from the start—you can break through the status quo! You have that power! Believe it and keep pushing!
Most of the progress in human history was achieved by people who refused to accept the impossible.Bill Gates
When you try to forge a new path unlike anyone else’s, there will be times when people laugh or tell you it’s impossible, that you can’t do it.
That’s when we should remember this famous quote.
Those who don’t believe in the impossible—those who believed they could and pushed forward—are the ones who changed the world.
With that in mind, no matter what others say, you can keep going.
Pioneers tend to face denial.
But if you don’t give up and see it through, you too might become someone whose name is recorded in history.
If there is no change, there is no growth. If there is no growth, you are not truly alive.Bill Gates
Change can be for the better or for the worse.
But if you want to grow, you have to take on new things and allow yourself to change.
Even little by little, growing each day and becoming a new version of yourself… that may become a sense of fulfillment and the joy of living.
Taking on challenges is hard, and failure can hurt.
But if you’re asking yourself, “What am I living for?”, why not take a step forward and try changing yourself?