Bill Gates

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

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.

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.