Bill Gates Quotes
Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
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Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
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I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.
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I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Removing government-created obstacles to small business growth is what Washington should be addressing, and this focus should start with removing the herculean impediments to job creation found in the health care law.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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Class is more important than a game.
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Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.
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Nobody does remakes for the sake of it. As for me, I have not hard and fast rules with respect to remakes.
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Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
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Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books.
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Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.
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The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.
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I never thought about moving to L.A.; I always wanted to be in New York. I moved there, and now I still have a kind of love affair with the city.
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What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.
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When you learn to love your own company, you become far more careful about whom you spend your time with.
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Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
