Bill Gates

“Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.”

“To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all...”

“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.”

“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.”

“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

“Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.”

“The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I hav...”

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

“We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take...”

“Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.”

“The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts tha...”

“The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.”

“The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health a...”

“Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.”

“People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.”

“When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.”

“When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to ri...”

“Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.”

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

“It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.”