Bill Gates Quotes

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

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• Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!

  

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild
  • Money
  • Government
  • Controls

• As the CEO running my life, running Meghan Trainor, I have to say 'no' to things all the time, and it's been very uncomfortable and very difficult. I've said 'no' and it's actually worked - even when I never thought it would work.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore,” Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a place to strap it on that didn’t interfere with the flamethrower. “No queens, no kings, no emperors. Not in America. Only CEOs. Same thing, but not so many crowns.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • America
  • Lady
  • Queens

• Microsoft technology has transformed business practices and his company has had a profound impact on the British economy.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Company

• A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market distortions. It can hinder development of national products and can directly impact the competitiveness of U.S. insurers.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • System
  • Price
  • U.S.

• Mutual funds, who have a fiduciary duty to shareholders, who have made the representation that they will do what's reasonable to stop these trades, and then they take payments for allowing these trades to take place -- they're in deep trouble.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Stop
  • Deep
  • Representation

• Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Management
  • Corporate
  • Obligations

• The CEO was personally bought off by being given IPO allocations, ... Small investors were left holding the bag.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Small
  • Investors
  • CEO

• When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• Certainly Microsoft is going to be a big force in collaboration applications and we are working with them in that area. But in terms of real-time voice and video-based collaboration, where you have to deal with all the issues associated with a pleasant and easy experience with voice and with video, we think that takes a systems company not just a software company to do it right.

  

  Charles Giancarlo
  • Time
  • Real
  • Experience

• Obviously I think Chauncey Billups is really the guy that controls the throttle over there. He is an important part of their success.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Success

• If I’m a CEO, I want to be in a place where the government works.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • I Want
  • CEO
  • Government Work

• The only thing I think really needs to be addressed by Microsoft is biometrics.

  

  Jeff Cohen
  • Think
  • Microsoft
  • Biometrics

• Our customers consist of some of the largest financial services firms in the world. These organizations must be able to implement strict access controls to the massive amounts of sensitive data and information they store. Oracle Database Vault provides a strong foundation to build these controls without significantly impacting the performance of the application or database.

  

  John Young
  • Build
  • Customers
  • Access

• He who controls the past controls the future.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Future
  • Past
  • Controls

• He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Learned
  • Controls
  • Understands

• A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Animal
  • Controls
  • Palate

• Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Identity
  • Invisible

• Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Medical
  • Doctors

• I was cocky and arrogant when I was younger. I thought that if I delivered a good performance, and put my best foot forward, that would be enough to get people's attention. So in my naivety, I cut my legs off at the knees, because I didn't realize that oftentimes it doesn't matter about the performance... it's the media that creates stars.

  

  Bokeem Woodbine
  • Attention
  • Stars
  • Media

• September 11 definitely opened our eyes, but when I was 19 or whatever on the last record, we just didn't care about anything. We were too young to care about anything. And then as you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark. That just kind of opened everyone's eyes (which I probably wish it did to more people) that there's obviously something wrong, to try and figure out what it is and what's going on in the world.

  

  Deryck Whibley Sum 41
  • Wish
  • Stupid
  • Wrong

• What is a career, actually? Nobody can destroy my career. Only I can destroy my career, if I am a bad conductor. I've gone to lesser known orchestras in Scotland and Sweden, Detroit, but I have enjoyed the places I've been, and had success. I like the close community relations, and to solve problems.

  

  Neeme Jarvi
  • Community
  • Problem
  • Careers

• No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Microsoft
  • Controls
  • CEO