Bill Gates
  • The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  • Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

  • In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

  • This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

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