Bill Gates Quotes
The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.
Quotes to Explore
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
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Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
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If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.
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I think the way we react to things is a big indicator of our character and what type of person we are.
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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.
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I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever.
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A female professional athlete has to have the whole package, as opposed to a guy who can just be good at sport. You have to have a job or go to uni or do three sports instead of one, you have to be a standout.
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Understand that we are all co-creators of our respective destinies.
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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
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Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.
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The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.
