Bill Gates Quotes on Money & Wealth (12 Quotes)

If there's anything that can be drawn from the presence of large numbers of demonstrators, it's the question of whether the rich world is giving back enough in setting the terms of trade, health resource or whatever, so that we're reaching out enough to the world at large,

My value is still so much higher than I ever expected it to be by a factor of about 50. So the fact that at one point it was say, a factor of 60, well -- that wealth is all going back to society anyway.

I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children.

The time is really now to change these things. That's true from the point of view of the relationship between the rich world and the poor world, it's true from a security point of view, an economic point of view. ... We're hopeful that the U.S. and other governments will see this as a turning point,

I never would have predicted it. I didn't set out to achieve some level of wealth or size of company. I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But

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.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

Although it is almost eliminated in rich countries, it's still one of the biggest killers worldwide. This is a very tough disease.

Who can afford to do professional work for nothing What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software.

If government is pulling back on this stuff, then the AIDS epidemic absolutely will not be stopped and the whole view of the rich world and how they've behaved to the world at large I think will be sort of irredeemable,

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

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